The news conference scheduled yesterday morning to announce long-awaited funding for transit improvements in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) got started later than originally planned. It seems that Prime Minister Stephen Harper was stuck in traffic.

When the prime minister did arrive at the conference site in Downsview Park in North York, he was quick to announce funding of up to $962 million for public transit infrastructure projects in the GTA. The biggest of those projects is the long-awaited expansion of the Spadina subway line through York’s Keele campus to the Vaughan Corporate Centre. The federal pledge was the final contribution needed to get the $2 billion subway project underway. Provincial and municipal funding had already been agreed.  Full Story