EnviroTO
Senior Member
That's the nature of this kind of grand infrastructure project. It's not about 'you' (no offense). It's about vision, and we expect our leaders to have it. If they'd had it twenty or thirty years ago you'd be enjoying all kinds of new subway lines now, just as future generations will be enjoying the ones we build. The problem is not the scale of this project and the seemingly endless time waiting for it, it's the fact that politicians are not serving their constituents responsibly in these matters on an ongoing basis by making the required investments. Far better for them to spend money buying votes and pacifying noisy interest groups like cyclists (not that I'am against cyclists!!).
The Eglinton LRT line is getting built. If the argument is that it should have been built a long time ago then I would agree. However that is not the argument... the argument being made is cancel what we are building now after a long time waiting and delay it further. You can't make the argument to cancel the project while stating an improvement should have been made a long time ago. It can't both be necessary now, and delayable at the same time. It simply isn't a logical argument. Hopefully our leaders have a more logical thought process than that. The argument to replace the SRT with a subway is a logical argument as it is LRT now, needs replacing, adds a transfer, and is at capacity. On Eglinton there is currently buses, rarely am I not able to get on although it is always crammed, and LRT tunnel with longer trains sets can easily handle the expected loads for the foreseeable future. With the biggest expense on Eglinton being the tunnel which is of a diameter larger than the subway tunnels getting built there is no logical argument to stopping construction other than a lack of vision. It takes a lack of vision for someone to not see the potential of this tunnel and instead close their minds to believe that only a subway can be a good solution. The only reasonable argument is a belief that the line cannot handle the expected loads but such a belief has not been supported by numbers but is instead supported by blind faith that the studies cannot be correct, that subway fanboys know better, etc.
The haven't been building much for cyclists either. There are hardly any additional off road cycling connections that have been built. They have painted lines on the road and that is it.