The City really has no vision. We need to meaningfully address the housing crisis and get serious about building infrastructure that the city urgently needs and will increasingly need as growth increases which is an inevitability and a reality that needs to be planned for. The opportunity of a connected south Etobicoke could and should be a big part of addressing this — and it will clearly be a site of major development whether the City plans for it properly or not.
Plus it would make the City so much nicer! Can you imagine a future version of Toronto where people could live more affordably in south Etobicoke with The Queensway as a grand avenue style density that has reliable direct transit access to the west end and downtown of the city? Real direct reliable transit: on rails, on a good schedule, integrated easily into the TTC network. No having to think about GO train schedules, no take a bus up to Bloor then go across the Bloor Line — real city-level transit infrastructure, investing in real reliable urban standard of transit extended out beyond the core. That would be a pretty wonderful way to transform and grow the city, helping to address the need to accommodate growth and building a better city in the process. It would increase so many people's quality of life. But we have nobody with plans, let alone with dreams. Instead our government, leadership at all levels, chooses to ignore the problem and pay for it in making the city's quality of life and ability to function worse through neglect.
