Former mayor John Tory’s legacy SmartTrack public transit plan may shrink — again — if the provincial and federal governments don’t help city hall with ballooning costs.
According to a report from city manager Paul Johnson going to council next week, rising costs mean the city can only afford to pay for three of five stations that are all that’s left of a regional transit plan that once envisioned 13 new stations and 22 stops on a 53-kilometre line stretching from Mississauga to Markham.