salsa
Senior Member
Round and around we go...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ension-as-city-weighs-budget/article16553801/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ension-as-city-weighs-budget/article16553801/
Round and around we go...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ension-as-city-weighs-budget/article16553801/
Ugh. This Scarborough transit debate HAS to end. This is a loosing battle for Matlow and others who support the LRT plan. The provincial Liberals have said they will be supporting a subway and will not reopen this debate. The Federal government is also supporting a subway extension. For politicians like Matlow and mayoral candidate David Soknacki, this LRT plan - which is a fine plan - will not happen even if city council goes back to the LRT plan in the next term of council. When the spring election rolls around, the Liberals are still promising a subway in Scarborough and are preparing to built it and if the PCs win, the subway extension WILL STILL happen. This continuous debate is getting very, very tiresome. Just let the subway extension happen.[/QUOTE(
Then why the talk about the assessment taking 2 years and then they will decide best option. I thought thats what Metrolinx (Murray) were saying and thats what I heard.
The debate's tiring but it's amazing just how popular going back to the old plan is. It's a great for these candidates to gain volunteers and contributions by appealing to them (not to say that they don't believe their plan is good themselves). Online posters here or on reddit or newspaper sites don't good sample for the entire voting pool but I'm sure you've all seen just how interested some people have gotten in Soknaki's campaign. Soknacki isn't a name people as super familiar with but he's found a way to dash out of the starting gate by taking on this issue.
I suspect that once Olivia Chow, Karen Stintz and possibly John Tory each officially declare their own mayoral runs, Soknaki's name will fade away into the background. Chow, Stintz and Tory each have the best campaign people (John Laschinger working with Olivia Chow, Dave Gene and Don Guy working with Karen Stintz and Nick Kouvalis working with John Tory) working for them and helping shape up each campaign on issues and messages.
It would be great if Tory took the same stance (if he runs). Just for the fact of that Scarborough LRT/subway debate, I would prefer no one else enter.
Ugh. This Scarborough transit debate HAS to end. This is a loosing battle for Matlow and others who support the LRT plan. The provincial Liberals have said they will be supporting a subway and will not reopen this debate.
If you were to cut municipal funding for it we would end up with Murray's craptacular subway to STC that does nobody any good.