Toronto city staff is out with a report with 61 outstanding questions the city has about the province's proposals for transit announced last week.
Once they have the information to answer them, the city wants to do an assessment of the province's plans to see how they line up with the city and TTC objectives
Subject to what they find out in that assessment--city staff is recommending allocating federal funding to the province's planned 3-stop Scarborough subway ($660 million) and the Ontario Line ($3.151 billion).
The city manager says none of this is an endorsement of the province's plans, stressing he doesn't have enough information yet to recommend council do that.
Before Tuesday's city council meeting was adjourned for the night, Mayor John Tory had recommended changing the wording of the motion in the report to say that council would "consider endorsing" the province's plans based on what the assessment finds.
Councillor Josh Matlow moved to have the money allocated to LRT lines instead--which is not in the province's plan, or the city's.
Matlow challenged the mayor on his past opposition to the three-stop version of the Scarborough subway extension and asked why Tory would suggest endorsing a plan he used to oppose.
Tory insisted he never said it was a bad idea.
City staff confirm that province would have to conduct a new environmental assessment for portions of the Ford government's Ontario Line proposal outside of the scope of the research work already done on a relief line.
Those studies took three to four years.
While all this is going on, city staff wants to press ahead with work on a one-stop solution for the Scarborough subway, as time and money has already been invested in exploring that option.
The city wants to ask the province to cover more than $180 million in sunk costs.