This is all Miller's doing. His truly childish notion of "LRT or nothing" is what has brought this all about. Miller's Transit City was written on a napkin except it had prettier colours.
There is no such thing as one-size-fits-all when it comes to transit but this was beyond Miller. Yes sometimes LRT makes sense, sometimes subway or SkyTrain, regular bus, streetcars, York-style BRT, Miss Transitway, express buses, RER, commuter rail, monorail, people movers.......there are all kinds of option because there are all kinds of riders, demographics, employment centres, densities, topography, geography, schools, hospitals and everything in between. Sometimes at-grade is best, other times, tunnelled, trenched, elevated, or any number of combinations. Miller's myopic view of just put in an LRT no matter what the above variables are was indicative of his lack of understanding of transit. He talked up a storm but his action prove that he knew little.
LRT is a poor choice for the SRT as much as a subway is. The best choice was always the first.......SkyTrain. Costs a fraction of either one of the others, will take one-tenth the amount of time to rebuild, the maintenance & garage facilities are already there but would just need to be expanded, it is fast, safe, reliable { SRT's reliability problems have nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with complete TTC incompetence}, comfortable, quiet, smooth, and very cost-effective...........Vancouver MAKES money on the SkyTrain system.