@CatherineJ Ford's 'mandate' was to "stop the gravy train" and cut City Hall waste.

Did he have a transit platform? Yes, eventually. Half way through the campaign he introduced a transit/transportation platform as a late-night YouTube posting, likely to not look like a one-trick pony.

His 'transit mandate' included such pie-in-the-sky ideas such as extending the Bloor-Danforth subway to Scarborough Town Centre using the existing SRC right of way to save money (an engineering impossibility), and taking ALL the money that the province had for the "5 in 10" plan and using it towards extending the Sheppard Subway both east and west. Only four of the five projects in the "5 in 10" plan were Transit City lines. He somehow forgot to tell York Region that he was planning to spend the billion and a half dollars they were getting for VIVA rapidways! Of course, York Region gave that up to support his 'mandate' -- NOT!

All through Ford's campaign, he earned an A+ for campaigning by repeating his message ("Stop the gravy train") at every single chance he got. NewsTalk 1010's "Touchdowns and Fumbles" even mentioned what a touchdown it was for him to get this line in, often multiple times, during an interview on subjects having nothing to do with City Hall waste.

Somebody please provide a recording or transcript of that interview he did that had nothing to do about transit or transportation where he managed to squeeze in a "rapid transit must be underground" into the conversation.

Don't work too hard - it NEVER happened!