44 North
Senior Member
TTCRiders is going to make matters worse for everyone at this stage for pushing the long rejected transfer plan. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/scarborough-subway-1.4258514?cmp=rss. They might just be getting started with a campaign to make noise and promote the old plan toward the election The one stop subway may be bad, but we either improve it, relocate it, or provide an alternate LRT plan to the original. Anything else is a complete waste of time given the stage were now at and even making any revisions aside from stops would be back peddling again and have further counter productive consequences. The City needs to move on.
I don't know about these groups 'making matters worse'. They're opening a dialogue, which may very well result in things like lower per km costs, addition of a Lawrence station, and maybe even bringing the line to Sheppard. Who knows. But I'd rather hear a variety of voices than one drum-banger speaking on behalf of 3/4 million, or a few bureaucrats and politicians calling the shots. It's silence that arguably gave us the oddball SSE we have now (i.e unrealistic and fishy sky-high cost, line cut short, no inline stations).
IMO these revisions you speak ill of because they'll supposedly stop momentum are in fact the only way to get a Lawrence station. With no revision it seems like a done deal that Lawrence is a non-starter (considering it'd be 100ft below a creek). Maybe having the AG look at it will finally answer why they chose to go ten stories under a creek when maybe they could've gone over it, or used a Brimley alignment, or perhaps incorporated the hospital's closure for a station/low-level viaduct a la Old Mill.