Brian Crombie, I interview Stephen Wickens, a Toronto-based journalist, transportation researcher, and author of Station to Station, Why Subway-building Costs Have Soared in the Toronto Region. His blog is WorldWideWickens.com

We discuss the cost of transit, what’s wrong at Metrolinx, the Scarborough subway extension, the proposed Ontario Line, regional express rail, and what Toronto and the suburbs need desperately to do to both gets costs under control, which he says have gone up 8 fold since 2000 in real terms, but yet still get the transit we need.