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Oh, I understand — she'll obfuscate and insult 'til the cows come home — but I can't let her get away with manipulating her audience by distorting or withholding facts. If Sue-Ann doesn't tell her readers all the positive facts about the KSP, I will.

The latest screed from Sue-Ann Levy. Fact-based rebuttals are encouraged below the article. I've already added mine. LEVY: It’s a King-sized headache for retailers

That claim has been bugging me for days: how indeed, if King/Bay showed almost 22K vehicles, could the City honestly claim only 20K vehicles on King in the pilot-project area? I think I've found the fly in the ointment! His list of City cordon counts: shows vehicles traveling on Bay at King...

Based on comments on the initial post, I added a few clarifications, labelled "[Jan. 26]": The conclusion in the first paragraph quoted ("the numbers would favor passengers in vehicles, not transit riders") is a teaser of things to come, based on later statements; it doesn't strictly follow...

There's a couple of blog posts of interest, calling into question the City's numbers related to the pilot project. I'd love to hear the resident experts' take on them. Here are some excerpts; [bracketed] and bold text are mine. Later clarifications, based on replies to this post, are bracketed...

Hey, streetcars stop 3 times as often than the LRT will, yet I love riding them.

I agree; several times, when posting about the billions saved by skipping the overbuilt, unwarranted subway, they could easily add heated floors and infrared overhead panels to every LRT stop, and still have billions left over. Imagine what it would do to the "poor us" Scarborough commuters if...

While I agree that many downtowners also freeze their behinds off waiting for surface transit, it remains that very few Scarborough commuters have the luxury of waiting on a subway platform (however windy) as opposed to downtowners, so I'm afraid that rebuttal isn't effective enough. I'm looking...

@coffey1 wasn't bashing Scarborough commuters, just ignorant people who happen to live in Scarborough. Interestingly enough, by equating them with unqualified "Scarborough commuters", it's you who is pointing a finger at every single Scarborough commuter. Ironic.

Your comment really hits home. For years, I've been one of those downtowners, sermoning any and all about the suitability of light-rail for Scarborough, pulling hard numbers out of my Evernote stash, and being quite testy at monosyllabic Nayshunals and their blind repetition of every LRT/subway...

And the ever-popular "So it's okay for a resident of Scarbororugh to freeze his/her ass of in the winter in the winter with an LRT , whilst a downtown resident enjoys the comfort of a subway stop?" Has anyone found the most effective rebuttal to this argument? Much opposition to LRT is...