I suspect that he has heard of sarcasm, and maybe is offering a bit of his own.
The city is paying the price for 20 years or longer of little improvement to transit in the downtown area. Thousands of people live downtown in areas that used to have almost no population. Think King and Spadina, especially. Hard to remember that it used to be close to a wasteland.
We also need the downtown relief line, but it doesn't seem to be on the TTC radar. We may need to start implementing things like all day no parking on King Street, although store operators on the street will (rightly) complain.
And so on ... it's been said before, I know.