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 […]
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'A tremendous boost' – York applauds Ontario's subway plan
York University yesterday applauded the Ontario government’s investments in public transit, post-secondary education and research and innovation, announced in the latest provincial budget. The government’s $670-million commitment to public transit through its Move Ontario initiative will enhance accessibility for York’s 65,000 students, faculty and staff, via extension of the Spadina subway to Highway 7 in Vaughan. […]
Getting ready for the subway
The York University Development Corporation (YUDC) is always planning for the future but it's not often that it needs to rethink the entire layout of Canada's most populous university campus. In fact, the campus master plan has only been altered once since it was drawn up in 1965 and that was in 1988. Now, with […]
