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READ OUR UPDATED FILE ON ROB FORD’S TRANSIT PLAN HERE

Rob Ford’s campaign team accidentally released the mayor’s wildly quixotic $9-billion transit plan online Tuesday night, hours before the mayor was due to make a rare policy announcement.

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The document was unavailable on the mayor’s campaign website Wednesday morning, just minutes before the mayor was due to speak at his campaign headquarters.

In the eight-page document, Ford says he will build two subway lines on Sheppard East and Finch — both rejected by city council in favour of light rail — as well as the first phase of a downtown relief line and bury the above-ground portion of the Eglinton LRT. And he claims he can manage to deliver these billions of dollars of underground transit without raising taxes.

Ford’s math appears to err on the side of optimism at every turn. He says he can build the Sheppard extension for $1.8-billion, which a TTC report pegged at a minimum of $2.7-billion.

The mayor also says he can build an 11-kilometre subway on Finch at a cost of $2.6-billion. The cost of a kilometre of subway in Toronto is generally cited to be between $300-million a kilometre to $350-million a kilometre, putting an 11-km Finch line at a minimum of $3.3-billion.

As for the downtown relief line, a 5.5-kilometre line from Pape station to Queen station, Ford says that can be built for $3.2-billion, which the TTC said in a 2012 report.

When asked about the pricing for his plan Wednesday, Ford claimed his numbers were from the TTC and Metrolinx.

To pay for his $9-billion plan, Ford lists a number of potential revenue sources, but comes nowhere close to anything resembling a fully-costed budget.

Ford says “options to fund the Toronto subway expansion plan” include: Provincial and federal partnerships, revenue from Build Toronto, development charges, private-public partnerships, air rights above subway stations sales, tax increment financing, “future assessment growth”, asset sales and reallocation of funding from current LRT projects.

The document was first spotted by the anonymous person behind RobFordfacts.ca. The transit plan was available in an unlinked part of Ford’s website.