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New proposal for Scarborough subway plan includes fewer stops, New LRT to UTSC

A major revamp of the contentious $3.5-billion Scarborough subway is heading to council, The Globe and Mail has learned.

The plan drafted by city staff would lower the cost of the subway project by having fewer stations – one stop instead of three – by running the train directly from Kennedy station to Scarborough Town Centre and then stopping. According to a high level source who has been briefed on the proposal, the savings could be ploughed into extending the Eglinton Crosstown LRT to the University of Toronto campus in the east end.

Combined with other changes related to Mayor John Tory’s SmartTrack plan, the idea offers the prospect of an LRT eventually running from Pearson International Airport in the west to the U of T Scarborough campus in the east.

Sources said that shortening the subway and eliminating two stations would shave $1-billion off the cost of roughly $3.5-billion. Subway builders would avoid the costly exercise of tunnelling under the 401 highway to Sheppard Avenue, which was to have been the terminus of the subway.

The subway would no longer stop at Lawrence Avenue, but nearby stops on Mayor John Tory’s ‎proposed SmartTrack line would take up some of the ridership slack.