Palma
Senior Member
So does tHis mean that federal gov't need to put forth new money correct? If they take it from sheppard LRT where it is previously committed, then it reverts back to LRT.
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From what I understand, council made the following decision:
1. Subway over LRT
2. Increase property taxes to the level suggested by the city manager (not the lower level suggested by Ford)
3. To protect all other transit projects (including the SELRT)
4. If sufficient money is not provided by Feds and Province, to revert to the original Scarborough LRT plan.
Please correct me if I got anything wrong. If not, then I'm generally happy with the outcome. Even though I was leaning toward the LRT, this subway may provide a release valve for the pro-subway politicians so they leave the three LRT lines (Finch, Eglinton, and Sheppard) alone.
From what I understand, council made the following decision:
1. Subway over LRT
2. Increase property taxes to the level suggested by the city manager (not the lower level suggested by Ford)
3. To protect all other transit projects (including the SELRT)
4. If sufficient money is not provided by Feds and Province, to revert to the original Scarborough LRT plan.
this subway may provide a release valve for the pro-subway politicians so they leave the three LRT lines (Finch, Eglinton, and Sheppard) alone.
To expect to travel on a subway for 20km into the heart of downtown for three bucks with a single transfer seems a little ridiculous.
If the Feds refuse to pay for the Scarborough Subway, not only will it make Rob Ford look impotent, it will also make the Feds look completely hostile to suburban Toronto (where they now have several seats to protect from the ever more popular federal Liberals). In that sense I think it's a win-win situation. Either the Federal conservatives cough up money for an expensive, socialist public transportation plan, or they make enemies of the very suburban voters they're counting on to survive the next election... and we still get an LRT.
Right, because the problem is the system is way too integrated...I'd like to see the TTC broken up, with the subway and LRT network run by Metrolinx, in conjunction with GO and the buses and streetcars left to the TTC.
I expect the Feds will pony up.
Or they may smell blood in the water, and now fight to extend Sheppard East as a subway, extend it west, build one on Finch...
And how will Harper tossing a cool half-billion bag of cash at Toronto that was previously unbudgetted play with his Western base?