Thorncliffe Park residents wage fierce fight against Metrolinx rail yard plan
CBC
A grassroots group in Thorncliffe Park that has been trying to stop Metrolinx from building a mammoth railyard in the community has won the support of the area's elected representatives at all three levels of government but says the Ford government is ignoring its pleas.
The group says of all the neighbourhoods across Toronto Metrolinx considered, theirs is the poorest and least white.
"Our community has been targeted for this train yard," said Kaynat Shaikh, 26, a member of SaveTPARK, a group made up of mostly lifelong residents that formed this past spring to fight the Metrolinx project
"If it was to be shifted to another community, perhaps even a higher socioeconomic community, would they even try to put a train yard there? Most likely not and it's very clear."
Metrolinx announced in an April blog post that Thorncliffe Park was selected for a 175,000-square-metre maintenance and storage facility.
That's roughly the size of 24 soccer fields.
The yard would service the Ontario Line, a 15-stop subway route, which is projected to run from Ontario Place to the Ontario Science Centre.
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