syn
Senior Member
No matter what is built - even dusting off the cobwebs and rebirthing the aborted light rail plan of David Miller lore - it will still cost multi billions of dollars. Are we really getting this riled up over a few billion dollars differential in pricetags? What if we added another billion but it granted us three additional stops... Brimley-Eglinton, Lawrence East and depending on the alignment a further stop past SCC at McCowan and Sheppard or Centennial College? Higher cost but serves a greater number of commuters, still oppose it then?
To argue in a vacuum that demand is greater elsewhere in the city therefore we must backburner this project indefinitely only works to destroy lives. The commute of someone living in Morningside Heights won't get any shorter or easier because there's new subway at Pape, but with a new subway at McCowan will. Frankly, I don't think the SSE opponents really want anywhere east of Victoria Park Ave to get anything at this point.
The argument is to invest the money in a way that makes sense.
The differential in relative price is not just a few billion dollars. I guess it's easy not to worry about cost when the rest of the city is footing most of the bill.