Therefore they should be ignored? Okay then.
Meanwhile your "subway champions" oppose subway maintenance.
They are entitled to make as much noise as they feel is necessary. We all are.
At this juncture of the debate, they are being ignored. The majority of Community leaders, University Leaders, Political leaders, Business leaders and Residents (Downtown media polls aside) in Scarborough are all ignoring these people now and banding together to set the record straight. It is what it is. Great strategic choice of name, ill give them that. The only notable support they have in Scarborough Politically is Paul Ainsle. All other councilors, Provincial MPs, and Fed support the SSE. Even likely soon to be councilors like Jennifer McKelvie who will be the likely incumbent to take Ron Moesers seat in another non-subway area of Scarborough is on board and fighting hard to get the real voice out.
Im just shedding light on reality vs. what is being discussed in the media. They can keep fighting all they want the more they fight against the greater wishes of Scarborough, the more fuel they are adding for these people to vote for a polarizing Mayor again. I don't think they realize this as they are used to being the only voice controlling the perception. But its gone too far, actually far past that point, as weve had two consecutive elections with public warning signs of an underlying problem and they still don't care to acknowledge this. Even worse they keep pushing out the same polarizing Political agenda.
End of the day Tory will either get the SSE and Eglinton LRT funded or he's likely in big trouble in Scarborough. Doug will rip him apart for killing the 3-4 stop by adding in the unnecessary cost of Smarttrack. And Scarborough residents will pile on out of spite of what others just don't care to understand and aren't being told. Its not even about LRT or SSE at that point, its much bigger again
So first and foremost I believe Tory is going to make this happen as he and almost everyone else looking to get elected anywhere in Scarborough knows this. Very clearly. But if for some reason Tory doesn't then its back to square one and well get the answer once again with likely the worst election weve ever seen. And I would strongly argue the need to put this question on the Ballot so we can put an end to this poor reporting and see the real numbers. We'll also get to see where the support is really coming from.
Re: Maintenance
Do you really think an area the size of Scarborough with no Subway to its core gives a crap about public transit maintenance concerns? Just building the SSE and the full Eglinton LRT alone will be enough to start to see a massive shift in unity towards united Political concerns and the upkeep of our public transit network. As apathetic as I am right now, Im optimistic that if we get the current plans built the City will have much better unity moving together in the future. The operational and maintenance fight will be City wide one day with one strong voice going to Queens Park, but its not even close right now. So Politicians are off the hook until then.
