Toronto's former city planner has a $50-billion proposal for the future of public transit.
Mayoral candidate Jennifer Keesmaat shared details of her 30-year plan on Thursday morning.
It includes making the construction of a new downtown subway line a top priority for city hall, in a move to take pressure off of cramped routes that already serve the core and beyond.
If elected, Keesmaat also promises to make the Streetcar Pilot Program on downtown King Street a permanent part of the city's traffic regime.
The ex-civil servant would also change the planned Scarborough subway expansion to revert to 3 stops, instead of one.
Keesmaat would also look to extend eastward the construction of the Eglinton LRT so that it could serve an estimated 40,000 extra people.
Her vision includes calls for bolstered bus service, and new light-rail transit lines.
She takes aim at the incumbent's big-ticket, 'Smart Track' rail transit plan, calling it 'a mirage' and 'a distraction' from the city's most pressing transportation needs.
"When we have a picture drawn on a napkin that sort of looks like a nice graphic, that's a problem," Keesmaat says.
"I think that kind of destroys the public trust."
Keesmaat's argument against continuing with Tory's transportation blueprint is that it has become a watered-down version of the pitch that helped propel him to the Mayor's office after the 2014 election campaign.
She says Tory promised to build more than 20 Smart Track stations but has only produced solid plans to fund 6 stations.
Keesmaat did not answer directly when asked whether or not city hall might have to consider new taxes to pay for her proposal.
A written statement from Tory's re-election campaign argues there's 'nothing new in Keesmaat's transit plan except chaos and further delays.'
"Re-drawing the transit map again, and reversing course on the Scarborough subway extension for a fourth time, would mean cancelling work already underway, incurring massive new costs and renegotiating funding agreements with other levels of government."