ssiguy2
Senior Member
We all {myself included} are constantly bitching about TC or transit in general. It is always easy to say what we want but is another to say what you would do with the $8.15 billion that Metrolinx is going to be doing for Toronto transit by 2020.
Not including York's VIVA, the cost breaks down like this: Eglinton Jane to Kennedy $4.6 billion, SRT extesion to Sheppard $1.4 billion, Finch LRT Spadina line to Humber College $1.2 billion, and Sheppard LRT from Don Mills to just shy of Morningside $.95 billion. All costs are in escalated dollars to 2020.
That is the budget for Toronto over the next decade and assuming no more or less funds what exactly would you do?
Let's not get into why someone else plan won't work but rather if you were in Metrolinx's shoes what would you present as your transit plan.
Complaining is so easy and we all do it exceptionally well but setting priorities and being responsible to all the tax payers and citizens of the city is quite another. If you had to face the whole city and tell them this is the best plan then what would you do? We all have wonderful plans but having to present them to the electorate and tax payers is quite another matter................it's not as easy as just putting lines on a map. Life is a lot more complicated when you are forced to live in some one else's shoes. Bitching is easy but proposing alternatives and defending your proposal is a lot more stressful.
So you can present your plan and explain it if you like but no negative commenting on another person. You can make your case but not by be putting down another persons's idea.
Not including York's VIVA, the cost breaks down like this: Eglinton Jane to Kennedy $4.6 billion, SRT extesion to Sheppard $1.4 billion, Finch LRT Spadina line to Humber College $1.2 billion, and Sheppard LRT from Don Mills to just shy of Morningside $.95 billion. All costs are in escalated dollars to 2020.
That is the budget for Toronto over the next decade and assuming no more or less funds what exactly would you do?
Let's not get into why someone else plan won't work but rather if you were in Metrolinx's shoes what would you present as your transit plan.
Complaining is so easy and we all do it exceptionally well but setting priorities and being responsible to all the tax payers and citizens of the city is quite another. If you had to face the whole city and tell them this is the best plan then what would you do? We all have wonderful plans but having to present them to the electorate and tax payers is quite another matter................it's not as easy as just putting lines on a map. Life is a lot more complicated when you are forced to live in some one else's shoes. Bitching is easy but proposing alternatives and defending your proposal is a lot more stressful.
So you can present your plan and explain it if you like but no negative commenting on another person. You can make your case but not by be putting down another persons's idea.