Okay, I'd like you to take a second and read the post I made so you'll see I agree with you.
Sorry I read your post as sarcasm initially. Multitasking
You made some great points but I seemed to have accidentally provoked some frustration.
Ill try to answer your questions..
First: if Scarborough has been neglected, post the numbers. Show budget numbers that contrast investment per capita in the four wards. (Hint - Scarborough gets its share of the city budget. It costs a lot to maintain those long roads, and those long sewer pipes and to send people out on patrols). Capital & maintenance budgets are 2 separate animals & cant be lumped as like for like. I can only look at the legacy the City has built at this point. It's certainly going to cost more in capital to bring our suburbs up to or connected to the same level of transit enjoyed elsewhere in the City which is long overdue. Our suburbs are not only connected poorly to the City there is no effective business plan. to promote, invest as per 905. Thats an issues as well.
Second, when you say "Your DRL is only one part of the equation & not our priority." You're 1. wrong about whose DRL it is, wrong about who I am (I live west of University. I just don't take jobs on the Yonge line. It isn't "my" DRL). Those folks at Yonge and Bloor hoping to get on a train? They've been accumulating since STC. They mostly come from far out east. It is *your* DRL, too. If you want to do other than move the suckage from Kennedy to Yonge, it's yours, too.
I corrected that. Again apologies not personal. The actual commuting benefits are needed and will be shared greatly once we connect our Suburbs efficiently. But transit also is a big driver of investment so it not our number #1 priority without being connected & most here refuse to even use public transit. Again build the DRL but it's not an either or with the current state of the City's public transit.
My first question is, does that chip on your shoulder make you incapable of seeing that? Again
. I misread initially & have always said I see the need for the DRL
Third, my point was not, actually, to you. You have, in spite of your self, managed to convince me there's something at stake other than common sense and wise allocation of money (which advocate for the LRT network). It isn't even your blathering anger and unsupported assertions that Scarborough doesn't get its share of the city budget. It's that the damn SRT SUCKS. Which means that even if the cost is a billion, two billion more to serve fewer people, we're going to have to build it. Any discussion one the SRT is going to have to accept that, and make the best we can starting, not with a blank slate, but with the idea that there is going to be an extension of line 2. Oddly, your anger has gotten to be so bad that you can't even see when people agree with you. I never mentioned the budget share
. I advocate for fixing the past mistakes and integrating fairly. That will cost money for all. And should be considered "fair share"
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Now, you want to go for the "Well, sure Ford smoked cracked, screwed scarborough over, but we'd vote for him even though he's dead because all politicians lie", which is called a "false equivalence". Look into it. Ive never voted for a Ford but I can certainly see why he was voted in. And ill take a crack smoker with fair Politics that acknowledges the neglected over a Polite, well mannered snakeskin who is out for his lobbyist 1st .
Unfortunately due to the nature of the beast we haven't seen a polite well mannered Politician who will stand up and represent the neglected & the people over the lobbyist. Will it come? Hopefully Fords "Bull in a China shop" helped paved the way for someone to come along with less resistance and much more tact.. but I highly doubt it.
