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The Waterfront West LRT (WWLRT) was a proposed light rail line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was part of the Transit City proposal announced March 16, 2007, to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission and use existing parts of the Toronto streetcar system. The line was cancelled by Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford on December 1, 2010 when he announced the cancellation of Transit City. While LRT lines on Sheppard East, Finch West, and Eglinton were revived through a new agreement between the City of Toronto and Metrolinx, the WWLRT was not included. An October 2015 city report recommended that the project be reconsidered in the context of other Waterfront transit projects.〔 It is included in Metrolinx's regional transportation plan ''The Big Move'' under the 15-year horizon. ==History== Announced on March 16, 2007, the WWLRT was part of Mayor David Miller's Transit City proposal, to be operated by the Toronto Transit Commission. As the shortest and least expensive Transit City line, it was expected to cost approximately $540 million. The line was to open in four stages and be completed by 2015 as the third of the seven Transit City lines after the Sheppard East LRT and Etobicoke-Finch West LRT (today's Finch West LRT). Unlike the other Transit City lines, this service would share infrastructure and track gauge with the streetcar system; the other LRTs would not be compatible and use larger vehicles on standard gauge tracking. After taking office in December 2010, Mayor Rob Ford announced cancellation of the line,〔(Mayor Rob Ford: “Transit City is over” ) Toronto Life December 1, 2010〕 however this decision was never brought to City Council for approval and the line's status remains in question. Funding had not been secured for this project. In January 2013, the project was shelved by Toronto city officials.〔(Inside Toronto: LRT planned for 2015 to run along Lake Shore Boulevard West has now been shelved by city officials )〕 On October 9, 2015, a city staff report titled ''Waterfront Transit "Reset"'' said that there is a clear need for a “reset” because recent waterfront transit planning has been ''ad hoc'' and incremental, resulting in the lack of a comprehensive plan for a transit network to respond to the rapid changes occurring along the waterfront. In the report, the Deputy City Manager recommended that: :City Council direct City staff, working with the TTC and Waterfront Toronto, to undertake a comprehensive review of waterfront transit initiatives and options, and provide a status update to Executive Committee in Q2 of 2016. The Waterfront Transit "Reset" report also said:〔 :Notwithstanding the fact that both the Waterfront West and Waterfront East LRTs are ranked in the top five unfunded rapid transit proposals in the preliminary analysis of Feeling Congested?", there has been little funding allocated for waterfront transit projects. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Waterfront West LRT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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