On February 7, 1985, on his final day in office, Davis delivered to the City of Toronto a wide strip of the land on the south side of Eglinton Avenue West at the Allen intersection, with a 99-year lease, blocking any possible extension to the south. Opponents such as Shiner had wanted the province to hold onto the land, hoping that a future premier would be willing to consider the highway. Shiner felt that "the expressway will be built, bit by bit, into the city". Shiner had received a $20million estimate from Metro officials to extend Spadina as a four-lane south to Davenport.