But things getting screwed up for the worst aren't just happening on this corridor: the relief line got totally screwed up and almost certainly won't be completed in time, Yonge north will still deal with the 2000 buses every day for the foreseeable future because of the Ontario Line's inherent design, The waterfront will develop and we'll be left with another CityPlace fiasco, Eglinton west may not get built and gridlock will continue to exist there, finch may never get proper capacity improvements east of Finch West station, RER is at risk of not being electrified, the Kitchener Corridor will never see frequent service, Sheppard...well, Sheppard east is fine, but we'll never see the development the corridor should have gotten on the western end. Fare integration won't happen for the next 4 years, significantly reducing the impact of RER, and wasting the potential of Downsview Park station.
What's worse is that all of this will have knock-on effects for the entire system — Either the anti-streetcar lobby will prevent the city from exercising an additional order, or the province won't provide funding for extra vehicles (Because the Ontario line will solve everything...), buses will be diverted to line 3, leaving the rest of the system completely capacity constrained. We risk losing the 502, 503, and 511 in their entirety and significant service on the 501 and 505, all in the form of ridership increases on the main routes. We will likely also lose service from all the major bus routes if resources have to be diverted away from downtown and the rest of the city to run a line 3 replacement.
This upload was rushed and ill-thought out. This isn't a 4 year delay for transit progress in the city, it's closer to 8 years. Once the tories are ousted, the next party in charge will likely not do everything in their power to fix the mess they got us in, and that will take at least 4 years to complete at best — fix design work for the Ontario line, bringing back a subway on that corridor, order new streetcars, build new bus garages, fix the route networks. Even then, damage will be done. We'll likely be stuck with a shitty RER contract, lose important ridership from fare integration practices, among so many other risks. Ford may not be one big cancelling machine, but the effects of his administration will set us so far back that we'll be worse off than where Harris left us (and I can't even believe I'm saying that...)
Help us Andy Byford, you're our only hope...