John Tory’s plan to build a surface level rapid transit system on electrified GO tracks follows appears to be based on a report issued late last year by the Neptis foundation. It called for essentially the same thing and said politicians were preparing to unnecessarily spend billions on transit. The plan seems to assume that motorists will turn to these lines and thus reduce traffic on the roads and that transit lines originating in the east and west will persuade commuters from crowding the Yonge line and provide some relief to that burdened system. Globe and Mail