The Front Street extension was one of the four waterfront priority projects agreed to by the City of Toronto, the Province of Ontario and the Canadian Government. The others were environmental studies looking at rejuvinating the mouth of the Don River, preparing the Portlands for future development, and the expansion of Union Station. They were to be the first steps in a long term plan to regenerate Toronto's waterfront. One of the rationales behind the Front Street Extension was to provide an alternate route for motorists while the construction to bury the Gardiner expressway was ongoing. Here is the Waterfront Revitilization Corporation's Front Street Extension and interchange web page for the project

There is a citizens group forming to fight the Front Street Extension plan, Citizens Against the Front Expressway. They had a meeting on October 9th, 2002 and have a web site up: battlefront.respect.to. Their next meeting will be on October 22nd at 7:00 pm at Nativity of The Mother of God Cathedral (Dundas and Crawford, NW corner of Trinity-Bellwood Park). If you go to their site it has all the details and the minutes of their October 9th Meeting.