Re: Court Decision Expected Today
Yes a Class B EA was done and it was a very detail one as well as a long one. I have been to every EA meeting as well taking part in getting petitions sign for the support of the ROW. I even visited and talked with these empty airhead business folks along St Clair.
Cutting streetcar service will only add to SOS gout for this ruling as it this is what they want in the first place. Also, what is going to happen to the riders who use this service now? TTC does not have the 100 buses or the drivers for them to replace the streetcars in the first and it will be 2 years before TTC gets those buses.
Hummm!!! $60 million for buses, $25 million for Drivers, and $35 million for a bus garage to store them which works out to be $120 million up front cost to put buses on the road in place of streetcars. Nice bill for the SOS folks.
If the SOS wants buses on this route or the subway they prefer to see built in the first place, then let them pickup the full cost of doing so. These wells change their tune fast.
It is time for transit riders to start taking legal action for the lack of service cause by SOS groups, but the City also for catering to the cars in the first place.
TTC made a mess on Spadina and they need to fix those problems now, otherwise forget about seeing anymore ROW let alone St Clair.
TTC is caught in a bind now as what to do about the tracks that are almost 2 years past replacing. Oct 19 TTC meet will be a hot one.
I am sure the Government is following this very closely as it well depend how the government write the new Toronto act to deal with this EA issue. The government will have to rewrite the EA process also. I see the government stepping in to resolve this issue.
Now this has happen, expect to see more legal issues surround transit within Ontario.
Oh!!, don't forget theses judges are car folks!
Dave