I am done with this disucssion....only because it is fruitless for us on here to debate something in the future.
Just as only time will prove if I am right (ie. the funds and willingness will run out long before the entire RTP is funded) or if others are right (ie. it will all get funded, don't worry, and this is just the natural order of things).
I have no hate for Vaughan....I thought the VIVA funding was for a line in Vaughan (that was what was reported on the radio station I was listnening too)...and was simply using them as a poster child for imbalance.....perhaps I should have said York Region seems to be getting a bit more than its "share" of transit funding with 2 subway extensions, GO service and a lot of VIVA money.
few last questions though (and these are legit questionsfor the people who follow this the most closely).......
1. are these really the only 4 shovel ready projects? (thust legitimizing - from a short term anti-recession point of view - their fuding announcement) because if they are not is this not also prioritizing jobs in Toronto over jobs elsewhere?
2. earlier someone (incorrectly thinking I wanted Acceleride funded/built first) suggested that it would link to this York Viva line and that it made sense to wait....now you tell me that the first phase of this highway 7 line is from Richmond Hill to Markham.......why would they go in that order? I recognize that there is a greater population in that part of York but if this line is what is ultimately going to connect the (by then) 600k Bramptonians to the regional plan would it not make sense to build the western link first....otherwise, that poster's "wait for acceleride" response should have been "wait, and wait and wait..........."
3. is your guarantee that "the Sheppard LRT and Yonge subway" line will be announced before the summer supposed to make me feel more balanced about this?
Anyway, as I said, only the future will tell us what is in the future. I hope I am wrong....I hope the entire RTP is funded, I hope that it is done in such a way that there is balance/logic/equity for all....I hope that we end up in 2024 with all of the 15 year prirorities achieved and that people can move seemlessly around the GTA by transit....I really do hope for all of that!!!
Keep in mind, my family's greatest frustration about me is that for the last 20 years the only thing I have ever asked for for christmas is world peace....I ask for it every year and it never comes........I don't have a great record of wishes coming true