BLIZZARD: Toronto's two useless TTC transit lines should have been subways

The Eglinton Crosstown and the Finch LRT have been a costly mistake fraught with delays and malfunctions

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Back in the day when the Eglinton Crosstown and the Finch LRT were twinkles in the eyes of politicians, I said they should be subways.

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Like the late Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, I believed in “subways, subways, subways.”

Why? The main reason is our winters.

The Finch LRT was barely open for a day or two last week when we had a small – by our standards – snowfall. What happened?