Bonnie Crombie pledges subway extension to Mississauga as top priority if elected
The former mayor says she would launch a business case within 100 days to extend the TTC's Bloor-Danforth line to Square One.
MISSISSAUGA — Former Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie says bringing a subway line to the city will be among her top priorities should voters return her to the office she previously held for a decade.
Crombie said on Tuesday that if she wins the Oct. 26 election, she will get things moving on the subway plan within her first 100 days in office.
Her goal is to extend the TTC’s Line 2 west from Kipling to serve Sherway Gardens and then continue into the heart of Mississauga’s City Centre by Square One Shopping Centre.
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“Too many people leave home before their children wake up and struggle to get back for dinner,” said Crombie. “Residents deserve more time with their families and better access to jobs and opportunities. Bringing the subway to Mississauga would help build that future.”
Crombie, incumbent Mayor Carolyn Parrish and Mississauga city councillors Alvin Tedjo and Dipika Damerla are the four main candidates in a field of 14 hopefuls vying for the mayor’s chair.
The Crombie campaign said the business case for a subway extension would examine potential routes and stations, ridership, construction and operating costs, and connections to the wider transit network.
“It would assess the Dundas corridor alongside other technically feasible alignments and examine whether raised construction along suitable sections could reduce costs and construction time,” her campaign said in a news release.
Furthermore, Crombie will seek to have the jointly funded study underway within the first year, with an agreed target of completing the initial business case within two years of taking office.
“Its findings would guide subsequent engineering, environmental work and funding negotiations needed to move towards construction,” Crombie’s campaign team said.
Parrish, who won a mayoral byelection in June 2024 to succeed Crombie, has said she supports extending the Toronto subway into Mississauga’s City Centre from Kipling station, but only if the provincial government picks up the tab.
She said in an early 2025 interview that former longtime mayor Hazel McCallion had two opportunities from then-Ontario premier Bill Davis for a fully funded provincial subway to Square One and refused it both times.
Last week, a new poll showed a majority of respondents don’t believe Mississauga will ever get a subway, despite billions of dollars being invested in rapid transit in the city.
Of the 2,979 votes cast, 57.4 per cent, or 1,710 respondents, said “No, never.” Another 42.6 per cent, or 1,269 people, said “Yes, it’s only a matter of time.”
A separate survey of 1,000 Mississauga residents in early October found 65 per cent support extending subway service to downtown Mississauga near Square One, while 20 per cent oppose the idea and 15 per cent are unsure.
Your Space Hamilton reported in October that the four front-running candidates are proposing different solutions to affordability, housing, crime and transportation ahead of the Oct. 26 election.
With files from The Narwhal