syn
Senior Member
I'm sure they were really given a choice......
It's hard to take a comment like that seriously.
Yes, they had a choice. It was a Scarborough delegation that asked the province to explore the possibility of using ICTS technology after a visit to the plant where the vehicles would be produced. Scarborough council voted in favour of the project without any sort of public consultations. That's on them (though I don't think it would've mattered given the excitement over the technology/new transit expansion).
This is why the decades they spent as an independent city can't be ignored. The idea that Scarborough is a victim in all of this is nonsense. If you want to level blame, then take a good look at the Scarborough politicians who've routinely made foolish decisions.
I agree with you that the 22 years after amalgamation more should be done. The problem with your reasoning is that virtually nothing has been done, anywhere. It isn't some kind of conspiracy against Scarborough.The TYSSE opened, bringing a line to an area arguably more transit starved than Scarborough. Little-no progress was made downtown. A replacement for the SRT was presented 13 years ago, one paid for and supported by Scarborough residents that would already be running.
You can vote for the Fords if you like, but they're probably the #1 reason such little progress has been made. If Rob Ford had his way the Eglinton Crosstown would've been cancelled too.
If not for them, the Scarborough LRT would be up and running, the Crosstown would likely be done, we'd be close to breaking ground on the EELRT, and we'd probably have progress on a Sheppard East Subway Extension.