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His Western base also cares about staying in power.
The proposed subway extension now puts all of Scarborough and a good chunk of the eastern 905 within a 15-20 min drive. Max 30 mins by GO bus. Most of Pickering is now within a 20 minute drive of a subway stop at STC. And a good chunk of Markham (all of what's south of the 407) is now within a 15 minute drive of a terminus subway stop at McCowan/Sheppard. You think those residents (errr...voters) won't care about that? If the Feds don't deliver, they will be the party that cancelled the eastern subway, not Rob Ford. And, regardless of what the federal NDP and Liberals think of LRT vs. Subway debates, they will have ammunition to beat the Conservatives with all over the eastern GTA. You can bet Flaherty is under pressure to deliver now. There's more than just Scarborough voters and ridings involved.
Anyway, let's see what happens. No harm in asking is there? Worst case scenario is a "No" and we go back to the SLRT.
You make a lot of sense when you talk about electric regional rail but then you essentially say people are too ignorant to know any better than subways subways subways so taxpayers should waste a couple billion to keep those people happy and satisfied. The fact that it brings the subway to your own personal doorstep is coincidence.
Why would people in Pickering or Markham care? I'm sure you're going to produce reports that show that there are thousands and thousands of them needing to commute to Greektown every morning.