apid transit was planned or funded when he took over from Mel Lastman, In fact, it was Miller who set the stage for the transit development we're witnessing today. Toronto got a seat at the table as a city and he got Transit City fully funded. Rob Ford then cancelled it all and was convinced to build the Eglinton Crosstown — but only if more of it were tunnelled resulting in a redesign and the delay we're still dealing with today. We would have had LRTs running across the city and on Finch West and Sheppard East, up Jane and Don Mills and around Scarborough to Malvern had Miller's funded plan actually continued on to construction. Much of it was shovel ready in 2010.
I didn't support his objections to subways but I understood why: it was the quickest way to catch up the entire city to our transit backlog with the available money. I still think a Jane LRT should be looked at or if subways subways subways is our motto, then even before the Ontario line enters service, the tunnel boring machines should be relocated into new shafts and continue tunnelling future lines north awaiting funding for stations and operations of a north/south line in the west end towards Eglinton and beyond to Finch and an east end tunnel up towards Sheppard.
