The Mayor ran on a platform that stressed canceling LRT and building subways. It doesn't matter what the supposed "transit experts" think, most of the residents want subways.

They want subways in part because the proposed LRTs dramatically impact traffic, reducing the capacity of major roads by as much as 50%. The "transit experts" don't give any serious consideration to the impact on vehicular traffic of their plans.

These "experts" also don't give any deep thought to city growth. In a recent report they suggest that there simply aren't enough people living along one corridor to make a subway profitable. HELLO! If you wait for densities to reach that point it's going to cost even more to put in the subway. HELLO! If you wait that long the transit system will be overcrowded for the ten or so years it takes to build the subway. HELLO! Subways attract development. They encourage businesses. They improve the economic condition of their corridor.

While Toronto has pretty decent winter weather, I wonder if the "experts" actually ride the rails during heavy winter weather? Subways can run through any weather and their riders travel in relative comfort. Ergo, more riders more of the time. Ergo, much lower economic losses on the part of residents when the weather gets bad.

If city council had any sense they would have been building a km or two every year. That way we'ed have a decent weather proof transit system and lots of semi-permanent construction jobs.

Did you by any chance say similar things about the former mayor who upon taking office unilaterally cancelled a major bridge contract costing the city an undisclosed amount that has been speculated to be over 50 million?

Don't worry, come next election, the Ford brothers will be toast. Of course I doubt, they will even run again.

The trade off is nowhere close to a reasonable one.
"Well he's a butcher and is destroying this city...but at least he's determined!" Whhhat??

I believe Municipal elections are every 3 years, which means we have one more year and eleven months to go before we see the end of Mr. Ford.

Well said.
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While I'm not a huge fan of the Mayor he did get elected by a significant majority. He got elected because people liked his platform. He has been diligent in achieving what he promised. The fact that you don't like his policies is your problem, not his.