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He may be the “subways, subways, subways” mayor, but Rob Ford suggested Tuesday that using tolls and taxes to pay for such expensive transit makes him want to vomit.

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It was about halfway through a meeting with John Tory and Mitzie Hunter, of advocacy group CivicAction, that I began to wonder how much it cost to invent the atomic bomb.

CivicAction has been working for years to raise public awareness about the need to properly fund Metrolinx’s “The Big Move” plan. The Big Move lists dozens of identified transit projects throughout the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) that, if completed, would not only improve local transit, but would also create an integrated regional system. Some are already underway. But dozens more remain unstarted and unfunded. It’s an issue that politicians in and around Toronto love to talk about, but none seem capable of actually addressing. And delay only makes the problem worse — hundreds of thousands of new residents move into the GTHA every year.