Streety McCarface
Senior Member
I'm not bitter about Wynne. Don't turn things around. If I'm bitter at all it is that TC was cancelled and gleefully people on here gloated that Ford was going to put subways everywhere and that only downtown elites who bike and drink lattes like LRT. Sorry if these people rubbed me the wrong way and now I'm happy seeing ford fall of his pedestal.
Transit city was a joke, let's be fair. They're using the wrong types of LRT technologies in the wrong places. Besides, TC has basically been resurrected with a few changes: Don Mills LRT converted to a subway (how was this not in the original plan???), SRT replaced with subway (this makes more sense than replacing it with an LRT, but less fiscal sense than replacing it with new SRT technology or running a subway on the corridor), Sheppard has been deferred until the subway is feasible (~2030s maybe 2040s. This makes sense because there is room for stopgap bus lanes, and there are other routes in the city that need the attention of LRT). I don't understand why TC hasn't looked at Kipling, Steeles, Lawrence, and York Mills for potential LRT routes. Some of those bus lines badly need increased capacity.
It's not just the LRT, but the entire revitalization of the Downtown streetcar network. If Scarborough can have a subway (which is fine if they do), midtown have the crosstown, and Uptown have the Sheppard Subway, then Downtown should have a revitalized streetcar network with new Portlands and other downtown lines (ie Church, Parliament, Bremner, etc, throw in Coxwell, that could actually do some good), new switches, and more streetcars. The fact that there's not more outrage over this astounds me. Everyone argues about a need for the DRL, but it's not the save all line, and neither is RER. People need to realized that a lot of things are required.PCs alone in not pledging dollars for ‘critical’ Toronto waterfront LRT
This LRT is critical for the city. The size of this development is huge - nearly as large as Downtown Toronto. The development we see here will far exceed any other mass redevelopment in recent memory, including City Place and Liberty Village. No transit is not an option.
Then again, we'll be having 4-5 LRT lines under construction (Finch West, Eglinton, Eglinton West, Eglinton East, Jane) during the next political term, so it just might not be feasible to have another ongoing LRT project when workers are already scarce.