"The cost of installing a short stretch of streetcar tracks on Leslie Street has ballooned to $105-million from the 2009 estimate of $14-million
Tab for streetcar spur line grows sevenfold to $105-million
Oliver Moore and Elizabeth Church
The Globe and Mail Published
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after the TTC approved the project without realizing the state of utilities
in the area.
Plans to authorize the contract are to be discussed Wednesday at the monthly commission meeting, but the sevenfold increase in price has already sparked backlash from a usually pro-transit voice at City Hall."
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