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Toronto Airport Expansion Plan Won't Be Released During Consultations: Port Authority
Officials say the airport has only a vision for modern aircraft as consultations continue and no expansion plan will be released before July 24.
- Toronto Port Authority officials announced Thursday that no expansion plan for Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport will be released before consultations conclude on July 24.
- Ontario Premier Doug Ford aims to expand Billy Bishop to accommodate jets, targeting an increase in annual passenger traffic to 10 million. Last month, the province passed legislation to assume Toronto's role in the airport's governing agreement.
- Prime Minister Mark Carney previously labeled Ford's vision 'interesting' with 'big possibilities,' and public consultations opened this week.
- High-Profile Torontonians and former mayors urged Ottawa this week to pause changes until a 'detailed evidence-based long-term plan' addresses 'many essential unanswered questions.'
- Consultations regarding the future of Billy Bishop will proceed as planned, though the process continues without release of specific, detailed expansion plans.
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Toronto airport expansion plan won’t be released during consultations: port authority
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he wants to expand the Billy Bishop airport to allow for jets and hopes to quintuple annual passenger traffic from around two million to 10
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Toronto airport expansion plan won’t be released during consultations: port authority – 105.9 The Region
TORONTO — Consultations on the future of the Toronto island airport will go ahead without detailed plans on a possible expansion. At a tense annual general meeting today, officials with Toronto Port Authority say no expansion plan for Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport has been finalized or would be released before newly launched consultations end on July 24. Vice-president Deborah Wilson says what the port authority has right now is a “vision fo…
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