As has been pointed out numerous times, downtowners rarely ride the subway, the subways aren't for people who live downtown, they're for people who live in the suburbs or outer core who commute downtown. Personally I use the over crowded streetcars, which means I usually end up walking to my destination because it's faster (not because of the problems with Streetcars, but because of the fact that Mayor Ford rejected the 20 minute maximum wait that was instituted, and lowered the amount of street cars operating on the lines I depend on, traffic congestion, street parking and an absence of dedicated street car lanes).
On the "I've paid for your transit" bs: My family in St.Catharines has contributed tax dollars that will be going towards this terrible subway decision. My husband's family in Western Ontario (a place that has virtually no transit options) are also contributing tax dollars towards it. When the Scarborough subway is being funded by Federal, Provincial and Municipal dollars, you can't play the "I pay for this" game.
I am 100% in support of a transit fund that helps connect cities, or other parts of Toronto to the core. Toronto is the capital of the Province and the hub of the economy, it deserves decent transit, but it deserves reasonable transit that will have sufficient return on investment. The fully funded LRT that would have served numerous parts of Scarborough, that was fully funded and would have been maintained by the province was a better investment than three subway stops.
This one decision is going to have us paying for decades and Toronto still won't have adequate transit.
