scarberiankhatru
Senior Member
As a side note, it is interesting to see what your position was 4 months ago, Scarberian. I had no idea you voted LRT.
I've never said Eglinton must be a subway...just that if we're going to spend so many billion dollars on a tunneled streetcar that stops at red lights, we might as well build a subway. Eglinton can clearly justify having a subway line in long term plans, but I don't place as high a priority on it as other transit projects, partly because its potential ridership is very much unknown.
The Eglinton LRT is vengeance against "the subway," retaliation for ripping up streetcar tracks decades ago. The city certainly did not study transit problems on Eglinton and conclude that LRT is the best option. If the city cares about its future at all, we must at least examine the subway option. I'd rather we plan for "good" transit instead of transit that's "good enough" to save a few dollars (dollars that won't be used on other transit projects, mind you). LRT could be "good" transit for Eglinton, but with Transfer City specs and at that cost...we're definitely veering into "good enough" territory that squanders potential. We should wait and plan Eglinton in a GTA-wide context, not in the context of rewarding light rail fans for years of hard times.