More than two months after Ontario Premier Doug Ford stood at the edge of Highway 401 and promised to dig a 50-kilometre tunnel below the gridlocked expressway, the province has barely started the work required to get the project off the ground.
Ford announced his tunnel vision in September and said work to study it would urgently take place.
He said a feasibility study would assess how many lanes his underground highway should have, if it could accommodate transit and how long it would ultimately be, with the option of running from Brampton in the west to Scarborough in the east.
“We want to move this as quickly as possible, get this done and start moving,” Ford said announcing the plan on Sept. 25. “We’ll be doing soil testing along the route and then the experts will come back and give us an idea of timeframe.”
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