Dan416
Senior Member
See reasoning above. The subway to VCC will create transit friendly development in that area from a blank slate. We don't want to make the mistake of Square One again....
Why on earth would you build a subway to a blank slate? That makes no planning sense whatsoever.
And what's the mistake of Square One you refer to? One is probably location the MCC at Hurontario and Burnhamthorpe rather than Hurontario and Dundas. The other is not getting a subway? As I said, I'd love a subway. But for a suburban centre, Square One has great transit. Loads of MT bus routes and very frequent GO buses outside of rush hour.
They might get a subway if they were willing to fund its construction and its O&M. York is negotiating both right now. They came to the table with money....I don't see why Mississauga can't do the same. Till then....NO SUBWAY FOR YOU! (to paraphrase a certain seinfeld chararcter...) Seriously though, a subway does not seem very high on the list for Mississauga city councillors, so I doubt that they would be willing to divert resources to help build a subway when there are so many other pressing local transit needs in 'sauga right now.
Maybe this issue will die with Hazel. Get some new blood into city hall and maybe Mississauga will finally demand the subway it needs. But Hazel likes to run things out of debt, and Mississauga, unfortunately, could not fund a subway extension without going into debt. In fact, I doubt anyone could, least of all a suburb.