This all boils down to one mayor stoking a transit inferiority complex in Scarborough and another indulging it.
The pro-Scar subway types are going to extract respect from the rest of the city by making it pay for this one stop subway. In practical terms in it will convenience some but it will inconvenience many others. But that's almost unimportant. The prevailing factor is that it will make Scarberians feel on par with the rest of the city and not second-class to downtown. Unfortunately the sum of low-information, ego, pandering and inertia in this city is greater than that of dispassionate consideration and political integrity.
"But I repeat for the hundredth time, there is one case, one only, when man may consciously, purposely, desire what is injurious to himself, what is stupid, very stupid--simply in order to have the right to desire for himself even what is very stupid and not to be bound by an obligation to desire only what is sensible. Of course, this very stupid thing, this caprice of ours, may be in reality, gentlemen, more advantageous for us than anything else on earth, especially in certain cases. And in particular it may be more advantageous than any advantage even when it does us obvious harm, and contradicts the soundest conclusions of our reason concerning our advantage--for in any circumstances it preserves for us what is most precious and most important--that is, our personality, our individuality."
