Mayor Rob Ford is not on board with TTC chairman Karen Stintz’s transit compromise to bury less of the Eglinton LRT.

In what is expected to be a major blow to the emerging compromise of Ford’s $8.2 billion transportation plan, officials in the mayor’s office confirmed Wednesday that the civic leader still supports burying the Eglinton LRT underground as it moves into Scarborough.

“The mayor is not interested in changing the Eglinton LRT plan,” Mark Towhey, Ford’s director of policy, told the Sun Wednesday night. “If you want to know what transit compromise looks like, look at the Scarborough RT, we’re already having to replace that, it never worked properly ... Scarborough deserves a subway.”

Stintz believes there is council support to bury less of the Eglinton LRT and use the $1 billion to $1.5 billion in savings to extend the Sheppard subway at least to Consumers Rd., near Victoria Park Ave.

Councillor Doug Ford warned Wednesday that burying less of the Eglinton LRT may not save cash for other transit projects and would treat Scarborough residents like “second-class citizens.”

“There is no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow for $2 billion to fund something else,” Ford said.

“This conception we’re getting a whole bunch of money if we go another way is just not facts.”

Officials with the mayor’s office insisted the province is adamant no more than $650 million in savings from the Eglinton LRT can be spent on the Sheppard subway.

Beyond the money concerns, Ford also balked at the idea of running that transit line above ground in Scarborough.

“We aren’t going to be treating Scarborough like second class citizens,” Ford said. “We support Scarborough and we love Scarborough.”

Ford’s comments counter Stintz who is pushing for a compromise that she says would save at least $1 billion by not burying the Eglinton LRT as it moves into Scarborough.

“If all the money is used up on Eglinton ...I don’t know how we would extend Sheppard,” said Stintz.