A not-so-happy birthday for Ford
Another mystery bill
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Premier DOUG FORD is turning the big 6-0 today, but his wish to rip up bike lanes won’t come without a fight.
Ford upped the ante in the province’s battle with City Hall, calling its $48-million estimate for removing existing lanes “hogwash.”
The province’s line: The PCs have promised to foot the bill, and while the government hasn’t crunched the numbers itself, they do not believe the city’s numbers. “It doesn’t cost $50 million,” Ford bluntly told reporters. “We’re going to show them how to do it for a lot less and get traffic moving.”
Ford echoed his Transportation Minister PRABMEET SARKARIA, who said Toronto’s numbers didn’t add up.
The city’s line: Speaking to committee hearings for corresponding Bill 212 earlier this week, the city’s director of transportation planning explained the cost is so high because some sections were recently reconstructed with concrete curb dividers. To restore lanes for vehicle traffic, “you would have to r…