Politicians would like to see the Pan Am Games change the long-term transit plans for the Golden Horseshoe.

Bureaucrats, though, and those in charge of the province's regional transit authority, are cool to the idea of changing Metrolinx's Big Move, since it's been so long in the making.

A spokesman for David Miller said yesterday the mayor wants to see the $1.26 billion Scarborough-Malvern LRT line, which isn't expected to be completed until 2019, up and running before the games.

The 13-km Scarborough-Malvern LRT line would join Malvern Town Centre with Kennedy subway station via U of T Scarborough campus, where the games' $170-million aquatics centre is being built.

"You can't run a major competition venue like a swimming facility without rapid transit access," Miller has said.

And even Transportation Minister Jim Bradley said yesterday changing the long-term transit plan because of the Pan Am Games, which will span the entire region from Niagara Falls to Oshawa, is possible.

He wouldn't commit, though, to extra funding for the Scarborough-Malvern line.

BRYN.WEESE@SUNMEDIA.CA