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Metro Toronto needs a major transit facility which will move people across the roof of the metropolis with dispatch. As the Yonge St. subway line proved during the 1950‘s and 1960‘s, a subway line can also draw new development and major building projects into what were previously static, even declining, areas. It is time that the Eglinton Ave. spine encompassing northern areas of the cities of Toronto and York and the borough of East York, was helped to draw employmentâ€"generating new construcâ€" tion to it. A fullâ€"scale subway line on Eglinton would achieve this purâ€" pose, and bring affluence to an area of Metro Toronto which has suffered from an inordinate degree of neglect. Metro Toronto, in close collaboration with the Ontario government, must move forward to create an extensive network of subway and intermediateâ€"density lines to serve the burgeoning area. Within that framework, the building of an Eglinton line should be moved to the fore, and begun within a few years. The Eglinton line should also be upgraded from the status of an Light Transit facility, comparable to the one built in Scarborough, to a fullâ€"scale subway, and should be extended eastward to Kingston Rd. In the Soviet Union, subway systems have been built in such cities as Kiev, Yerevan, the capital of the Republic of Armenia, Leningrad, and Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and Sverdlovsk in Siberia to augment the original Moscow system, whose first line was built in the 1930 s. In the U.S., The Bay Area Rapid Transit network has been built in the San Franâ€" cisco area, and systems are being built in Baltimore and Atlanta. Metro Toronto, from being a world leader in subway construcâ€" tion after the Second World War, has become a laggard, content to watch on the sidelines as the other cities of the world pass it by. In Japan, extensive subway networks have been built in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan‘s second largest metropolitan area. been opened in Caracas, Venezuela, and Santiago, Chile, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. In Europe, the Lisbon, Portugal subway system was extended to vacant land in the suburbs before they were built, so that people would become acclimated to being transit commuters from the first day they moved into their new homes. Metro‘s plans for the building of subways and other major rapid transit lines have subsided into unbecoming modesty. Betâ€" ween 1950 and 1954 Metro built the original Yonge St. subway, and between 1960 and 1965 it built the Bloorâ€"Danforth line, but in subsequent years the pace has slackened. In South America, Mexico City opened its first major subway lines in 1968 in time for the Olympics of that year, and in later years has been extending the subway network to serve the world‘s largest city with 18 million people. Subway lines have In a move no informed observers can think of as a constituâ€" tional precedent, the cities of York and Etobicoke have held a joint council meeting May 26 to press the Metro Toronto governâ€" ment to approve the building of an Eglinton Ave. W. rapid transit line. Etobicoke Mayor Bruce Sinclair declared the meeting, in adâ€" vance of its being held, to be precedentâ€"shattering, while York Mayor Alan Tonks stated that its purpose was to make sure that the need for an Eglinton line is not obscured by the forthcoming public debate over the Network 2011 plan for building rapid transit projects in Metropolitan Toronto. As the Network 2011 plan now stands, the proposed Eglinton line occupies third place in Metro‘s order of priorities in building three major transit lines. The proposed Sheppard Ave. and downtown relief lines now have higher priority. Page 6 The Link June/1986 A word from the publisher Keehol eS EDITORIAL Our newspaper has just received an award from the York Board of Education for our efforts in training a student from Runnymede Collegiate in the journalism profession. The proâ€" gram is designed to give high school students practical exâ€" perience in a profession while they earn school credits. 1 would like to thank the Board for the award. Recogniâ€" tion of our efforts always comes as a pleasant reward. Specificalâ€" ly 1 would like to thank Patricia Shaughnessy, consultant with the Coâ€"operative Education program, the student herselfâ€"â€" Tanya Davies, and Tanya‘s liaison between the school and us, Ms. L. Stanko Our newspaper is a "link"‘ between community members. That‘s what we‘re here for, and 1 trust we are doing our job. (LETTERS TO THE EDITOR) As the administrative assisâ€" tant of Dewson Private Hospital, it was very gratifying George Chuvalo is on holiday this issue. Maybe he‘s gone golfing. I‘m fed up with boxing, boxâ€" ing, boxing, and would apâ€" preciate something about curlâ€" ing, cricket or golf. Tell Chuvalo to open his eyes to the interests of your readers. Dale Sutter 1 appreciate George Chuvalo writing about boxing, boxing, boxing, but why does he call his column a "sports"‘ column. Does Chuvalo not know anything about any other sports? Publisher & G.M Editor Managing Editor Office & Sales Manage Fashion/Administration Public Relations Community Relations Sports Consultant Special Assignments Medical Published by Homsi Newspapers Inc. under licence from Community News & Graphics More boxing:? OoUR NETWORK OF NEWSPAPERS Gratifying Spadina Link Weston Link York Link Bloor Centre Link St. Clair Link Parkdale Link Yorkville Link Michael Homsi John Gradson Gail Hanney Frank Scarcelli Maggie McCabe Bernadette McGladde Vernon Bassue George Chuvalo Gail Hanney Dr. P. Jaconello 1 hope Spyder Jones keeps up the good work on his column. I really liked the one on Chubby Checker and am a big fan on old stuff. 1 hope to see a story on Roy Orbison in the future. Mike Clohecy Pickering, Ont. We would also like to exâ€" press thanks to your writer. All in all, 1 feel that we have now established a good relationship and we now have a good conâ€" tact locally. Elinor Burgess Dewson Private Hospital to finally find a "link‘" to our hospital and a local newspaper. We appreciate the writeup done for our Frances Witton on her 103rd birthday and the photograph. Her daughter, Mrs. Mahaffey, was delighted. Good work Ty Helen Armstrong Tina de Geus Geoff Deane James Hill Charles Thompson Mario Valente Sales Representatives Art Department Heleen Paolini Maria DiMarco Writers Salim Curritm Maggie McCabe George Chuvalo Dr. R. Pike Peter Gross Tom Fortner & D. A. Howie Chuck "Spyder‘ Jones Wayne Somers Michael E. Comars Area MP. MPPs and Citv nnl Columnists MPPs and City politicians 1 am anxiously awaiting the next issue of The Link, and especially Sypder‘s next story. Keep up the good work, Spyder. 1 would like to read about a couple of other starsâ€" perhaps in your next issuesâ€" such as The Supremes, Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison. Also, 1 would like to add that the vibrancy in his writing makes reading most enjoyable and entertaining. 1 only read The Link for Spyder‘s stories. The other stories are a little boringâ€"â€"no offense to anyone. Antonella 1 had to write and let Spyder Jones know how much I enâ€" joyed reading about The Stylistics and the twisting Chubâ€" by Checker in last month‘s Link. They are the best; that‘s when music was sentimental and a love song made you want to hold close the one you lovâ€" ed. Yes, thank you for the inforâ€" mation on my favorites. Bernardo Cioppa Gary Wheeler Catherine Smiglicki Ed Carrigan Anne Moore Richard Paolini Shelley Ambrose Malcolm Johnson Chris Hallgren