It really amazes me how people can easily trust politicians.
CMON!!!!!
If Sheppard was a Chicago Subway line, it would be one of the busiest lines, beating most of their lines who are 20 KM with 20 stations linked to downtown...It would be a successful line ...by their standards...
That's right Standards can easily be manipulated... A complete Sheppard line would be in their top 3 lines and would be a success by many city around the world.
It's amazing that a 5 station and 5 KM line can have such a high ridership compare to many lines around the world...
Sheppard LRT offers little speed increase, decrease in service and unnecessary transfert points. This will keep Scarborough center Isolated from the rest of the city.
Miller never did care about scarborough in the first place and his LRT is a attempt to win votes just to show them that he's working for them. When it will be election time, he will overlaod us of pictures of Sheppard east under construction just to win the suburbs.
That's a billion dollars completely wasted which will ruin the Sheppard corridor for decades. Any transit planner (mentally sane would see this as a big mistake)
If I compare with Montreal's blue line wich is a northern crosstown, Anjou is completely isoleted from the rest of the city. If tomorrow the mayor was to annouce an LRT to Anjou, people would riot (if we can riot for a hockey game
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I support this petition because we need AT LEAST to make sure that people of Scarborough and North York knows what the city is doing and that they have the power to demand a better project.
Sheppard east is kept below the radar because let's face it, the city is advertising this project as RAPID TRANSIT and this is a JOKE.
How can people on this board still trust a lying mayor who's only interest at this point is to be reelected??? The true power is held by the people and not city councillors. They gain power when citizen don't use it. This petition is meant to be tools for the concern citizen to use his power by mean of protestation, medias, letters to their councillors and MPP. I'd rather fail trying than see this happening doing nothing.
Enough with the money. Toronto is part of the top 10 most powerful city (economic) in THE WORLD.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/15/ec...0715powercities_slide_11.html?thisSpeed=15000
We have to ask: Is this city really as broke as politicians says or are they poor administrators who are wasting money on less important projects???
Toronto have everything it needs to have a great transit network, we need better politicians and administrators...and less naive citizens.