Olivia Chow’s flip-flop on the Scarborough subway puts her on track with the NDP’s promise not to derail funding to the project.

During a campaign stop in Toronto on Friday, NDP leader Tom Mulcair vowed that a change in government wouldn’t stop the $660 million in federal funds promised for the subway extension.

“With regard to decisions that have been taken by a previous government with regard to the extension of the subway out to Scarborough, we’re going to leave that in place,” Mulcair said. “We’re not going to start talking about reversing decisions that have already been taken. We will make sure that that project continues through as it was done.”

Mulcair’s support for the Scarborough subway differs from left-wing downtown city councillors who have supported building an LRT to replace the Scarborough RT instead of the Bloor-Danforth line extension.

A day earlier, Spadina-Fort York NDP candidate Olivia Chow appeared to have abandoned her opposition to the Scarborough subway - one of the central planks of her mayoral campaign.

When asked about the Scarborough subway on Thursday night, Chow said the NDP’s transit strategy would provide “predictable stable funding” of “at least $1.3 billion every year for 20 years.”

“Once you have that kind of cooperation with municipal government and predictable funding, then it’s up to municipalities and provinces to work out what kind of projects (go ahead),” she explained.

The party leader also trumpeted the NDP’s transit strategy on Friday.

“We want to become the reliable, long-term partner of municipalities and regional governments across Canada,” Mulcair said. “We’ve put very specific undertakings in our budget proposals to do just that.”