The head of Ontario’s regional transit agency says the price tag so far for the Ontario Line subway is at about $34 billion, which is triple the government’s original cost projection.
Metrolinx president and CEO Michael Lindsay confirmed the dollar figure in response to a reporter’s question today and says the final total will be higher than that, as the elevated guideway contract process is not yet finalized.
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When Premier Doug Ford’s government announced its plan for the subway line to run from Exhibition Place to east Toronto, through downtown, it pegged the cost at $10.9 billion.
Lindsay says when the project was announced in 2019 it was a different time and since then, trade uncertainty and supply chain shocks are adding pressure.
He says Metrolinx uses a competitive process for its contracts and scrutinizes line items in order to make spending efficient.
NDP Leader Marit Stiles says she is concerned that large transit projects consistently grow “out of control” and are not delivered on time.
Vinny let me guess, you blame hospital wait times in BC on Ford too right? Because everything wrong in Canada must be blamed on Ontario and Ford.
Hey Vinny get some new material. You have no idea and are making it up as you go along.
Carney kept us dependant on the US by pushing for a carbon tax while he was special economic advisor to Justin. That held back our resource sector and held us back from diversifying. And again, they turned away Germany and Japan.
Go to bed grandpa!
Metrolinkx just another authority created by our brave politicians to skim our pockets.
And we need to start by firing the biggest conman CEO KING CARNEY!! Fire that buffoon first and then his entire cabal of minister and his buddy Ford.
Why are we not firing these CEOs?
Ford over stepped his bounds and caused more disaster for Canadians everywhere. He increased our dependence on the US three fold while claiming to defend Canada. He is a con artist selling us h for pieces to the US. Maybe learn more about trade and politics before you blame for the federal for all your issues. Conservatives are a joke party at the provincial level.
Vinny, you are a ciown. In 2024 all of Canada set a 58 year record for the number of Canadians who formally emigrated from Canada to elsewhere. That record was then broken in 2025.
The federal economy is what impacts most jobs. We had Carney as special economic advisor to JT and they turned away both Germany and Japan who wanted to buy our LNG after the start of the Ukraine War. Now Carney is globetrotting trying to secure those same deals.
We had JT shut parliament right before Trump took office, just to delay our elections and save the LPC. Ford as the head of the Association of Premiers had to attempt negotiations with the incoming Trump administration. We had no functioning federal government for months.
Hey Anon, we have had a majority of Conservative government as premiers across the country. So, they contribute to the lost decade. When the country has a conservative federal. That flips and provinces do better without the Conservatives in charge of the provinces. It’s not a coincidence that Conservatives can’t run the provincial governments.
Only an idiot would be surprised by this
Metrolinx has never come in on budget or on time
Hey Vinny, no it’s the Lost Liberal Decade that has sunk the economy of the entire country. It is a commonly referred to phrase in economic publications.
Who is to blame? Who should we blame? Should we blame Ontario Premier Doug Ford?
So happy to see Canada sending criminals to the US to face prosecution. Our worthless judicial system gives killers too much leniency.
You mean lost conservative decade. Ford has been here and will be here that long. He’ll keep stealing from Ontario.
Yes, this is the ship we have to deal with everything a government has an epiphany.
Of course it did, it’s our government nothing gets done on budget and they don’t care
Greg, everything costs more now, not just the construction on this project. Thanks to the Lost Liberal Decade.
How do these people keep there positions after the constant failures
in keeping within a budget
Of course costs went up. We had useless protests at University and Queen and again at Queen East that held up the project.