I know we shouldn't talk about other posters on here, but Tiger Master has gotten more and more negative of late.
I know I've been a negative nancy lately, but I'm confident that Toronto has a bright transit future ahead of it. I'm just getting real tired of the politics of it and politician consistently peddling the most expensive and least workable options:
The last rapid transit extension was more than 10 years ago... a $1 Billion hole in the ground that nobody uses.
We're building a subway to Vaughan with pathetically low ridership. Yay.
Rob Ford has convinced Scarborough that they somehow "deserve" a $3.5 Billion ego stroker (err... I mean subway... no I didn't), and nobody seems to give a damn that it's ridership will be just about as low as Spadina and almost as bad as pathetic Sheppard. But it gives Scarborough
The Feels, so we better build it.
The $5 Billion Eglinton Line is coming along. The thing moves only 5,400 persons per hour (that's just slightly about Sheppard, for reference), but I'll throw my support behind it considering that there are literally no other alternatives and that the line, as designed, is the cheapest way to make it work.
We just elected a "fiscally conservative" mayor who wants to build a subway on Eglinton West, whilst there are available rail corridors immediately north.
Because if anywhere needs a subway, it's Eglinton West, right? And ever notice how those who claim to be fiscally conservative always find the best ways to burn cash? ugh.
This same mayor refuses to commit to supporting the one of two upcoming subway projects that without a doubt makes sense, the Relief Line.
We have councillors, again, trying to derail Sheppard and Finch transit.
Bombardier is incompetent.
The only two upcoming subway projects that make any sense to build whatsoever, Yonge North and Relief Line, appear to be more or less dead last on the priority list. Because, you know, hell would sooner freeze over than Toronto would make a rapid transit decision that makes an iota of sense.
On the upside, we have RER, so yay. New signalling system will be on Line 1, eventually. The Eglinton Crosstown will be open in 5 years. Union Station looks pretty. Leslie Barns is nearly done. The bendy busses are cool. Mr. Byford is doing a great job, considering the cards he's been dealt with.