AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
All I'm saying is that the proposed LRT to Sheppard & Progress is dead. It was already dead, now it's even more dead. Josh Matlow et al. can keep floating the dead proposal, or come up with a new one. If this is about Scarborough's transit, then they'll come up with a new one. If this is about getting support from their downtown constituents in 2018, they'll keep talking about their dead proposal.
If you want to make it about the other side, you can, but pointing fingers isn't going to change anyone's mind on this issue.
It is always about the "other side" - it's Scarborough transit afterall. It is funny to drag out Malvern (i.e. longer LRT) when it is opportune and then have nothing to fall back on when called to task just how the proposed SEE scheme provide benefits to said group. Like I've said, I look forward to seeing how SSE will do that.
As to "downtown constituents" - I highly doubt anyone is going to vote for or against a councilor on the basis of where they stand on transit in Scarborough.
The only way the SSE proposal is tolerable at this point is if they add-in intermediate stations at Eglinton-Brimley and Lawrence-McCowan. Even if it costs us another $300 million, it'd be worth it. To bring up something BurlOak posted some pages back, nothing's stopping them from elevating the Lawrence East station onto a bridge as to avoid the water table issues at that intersection. It could be done.
It had been done before at Leslie.
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