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If Ontario Premier Doug Ford has his way, there will be no inquiry into Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown debacle: 19 kilometres of light rail, roughly half underground and half at grade, for a cost of roughly $13 billion, over 15 years of construction. I, on the other hand, can scarcely think of anything more befitting an inquiry. But since there’s no functional opposition at Queen’s Park, the people — Ford’s lodestar, forever and always — will have to  demand it.

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No, seriously. Demand it, every chance you get.

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On the bright side, early reviews since the line finally opened over the weekend are generally positive — certainly relative to Toronto’s recently opened Finch West LRT, which travels more slowly than the buses it replaces, and that might not even be its biggest problem.

But then, the Eglinton Crosstown should run more smoothly, if only because much of it is underground. At-grade rail works well in cities all........

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