dowlingm
Senior Member
The real issue here is, and why the attacks are "relentless", that the better part of $4 billion dollars, plus a very large sum to early-retire the L2 signals and trains, is being spent to extend the subway one stop, while giving Scarborough north of the 401 no rapid transit and removing it from the SRT corridor. At the same time the City taxpayers are subsidising RER, while GO says they don't want stopping at SmartTrack stations since it might cause 905 customers to feel their trains are now too slow!Same could be said for the SLRT. I mean they are still looking for ways to sell it a decade later. Not sure the SSE crowd is selling it as much as banding together sending a message to combat the relentless attack to push the SLRT. The one stop is not great but either is the SLRT. Smarttrack is the issue but also not horrible. Time to move on or it will likely be subway only that gets built.
It is being done not because the numbers say it is, but because of Scarborough "deserving it", based on "lived experiences" rather than data, and based on a report which none of the major players have the guts to admit they got Andy Byford to skew.
Instead the rattly old Mark Is are getting a fresh coat of paint and toil to soldier on another decade - and more once the SSE overruns and delays hit, as they have with TYSSE and surely will here too.