TrickyRicky: a transit dollar is not automatically better spent in the 416. There's some 905 projects that would be more "efficient" than some 416 projects in terms of generating ridership, partially (if not mainly) because the 905 riders would be entirely new and low hanging fruit's easy pickings. It's probably indisputable that GO train improvements would reap the greatest benefits from a funding influx, predominately helping 905ers. Of course, GO trains and various bus routes are far cheaper than the subways or streetcars proposed for more central areas.
Why do you think that Milton and other municipalites will stop growing? Toronto projected growth through intensification. While it didn't happen and Toronto is anywhere between 130,000 to 200,000 behind in projected population growth (TOP, PTG), they still projected it to. Despite no increases in land. Do you think that this won't happen elsewhere?
*Every* municipality loses and/or will lose population - as Milton had as recently as the previous census - unless they continuously build new residences (or attract fertile immigrants). Wake me up when Milton razes its detached houses and throws up some mid-rises or becomes a Mecca for Mormons. There's no reason to assume the 905 will intensify, validating the expense of transit lines, when places like the area around Glencairn station haven't changed a bit. Toronto's been vomiting up dozens of condos per year into the sky and can hardly keep pace with demographic changes; realistically, the 905 won't sustain itself as much as Toronto is.
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has been consuming new land, though, and parts of Toronto are growing as fast as parts of the 905. What we desperately need to do is plan transit pretending municipality borders don't exist. Using your criteria, Brampton deserves better transit, but since half of Brampton is already losing population, only half of Brampton should get improved transit.
There is no school closures happening in the outer regions of the 416. The outer region of the 416 is comprised largely of green and brown fields going through huge housing growth. House + 3 or 4 bedrooms = mommy + daddy + # of children = school growth.
Back again, I see. You don't need to keep tending to the embers of flamewars or announcing farewells to grab attention; you could just use more emoticons or a larger font. Actually, at the school board I mostly just sat around all day wasting tax dollars and chatting about how many dollars school boards waste.
Schools have closed in the outer 416. You define "outer 416" as, well, pretty much just Morningside Heights, aka Upper Malvern (then what's Rexdale or the rest of north Scarborough..."inner 416"?) but, really, there's only room for about 1000 more houses on greenfield sites in "outer" Toronto. The party's over for detached homes in the 416.