Rainforest
Senior Member
Does your support for Scarborough Subways depend on where you live? ...
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Does your support for Scarborough Subways depend on where you live
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Elite People
New Member
1st!
Palma
Senior Member
So far it looks like whether you used to live in Scarborough, live in Scarborough or have never lived there, no support for either subway extensions to STC
BurlOak
Senior Member
The problem with this debate is that the 2 sides are so far apart. LRT with transfer and heavy subway.
I lived in a couple of the outer boroughs and think there is a kinship there with Scarborough that the transfer LRT plan was not adequate - but not necessary the subway plan on the table.
I lived in a couple of the outer boroughs and think there is a kinship there with Scarborough that the transfer LRT plan was not adequate - but not necessary the subway plan on the table.
OneCity
Senior Member
The issue is we are debating the worst possible subway proposal against a poorly integrated and already rejected LRT proposal.
The whole debate is absurd and pitting people into unreasonable decisions. Either build a proper subway with stops (preferably on the RT corridor) or integrate the LRT better. It really wasn't that difficult but Politicians on all sides have screwed this up royally.
If I have to choose between the two, it'll be the subway to give SCC the best chance, local transit Is much easier to solve in the future and we need to just move on. Unfortunate, their are only two choices at this point. Both inadequate.
The whole debate is absurd and pitting people into unreasonable decisions. Either build a proper subway with stops (preferably on the RT corridor) or integrate the LRT better. It really wasn't that difficult but Politicians on all sides have screwed this up royally.
If I have to choose between the two, it'll be the subway to give SCC the best chance, local transit Is much easier to solve in the future and we need to just move on. Unfortunate, their are only two choices at this point. Both inadequate.
sixrings
Senior Member
Why is it so hard to admit that there isn't the support for these subways as much as some would like to believe. Maybe in 50 years people will change their minds
kEiThZ
Superstar
On the same token, how reflective is a pool on urbantoronto of the general population?
sixrings
Senior Member
12 people here seem to have a scarborough connection versus 16 who do not. That doesnt sound as anti scarborough as perhaps suggested.
Sakraycore
Active Member
You're counting the ones who USED to have a Scarborough connection?
Elite People
New Member
Why not just spend 300 Million for a reconstruction (upgraded for larger trains) version of RT.
OneCity
Senior Member
Politicians may lie. But the support doesn't. It has been pretty overwhelming for the subway TBH. Even in an area like Malvern with the 1 - stop in design, the bi election won with the subway front and centre. The problem now is that Tory neutered the subway voted on by the people and the transfer LRT crowd thinks they have a window because of this crappy subway plan. I think as rightfully pissed off as the majority of residents will be this election the "just build" something will carry the day. Residents wanted a better subway IMO and Tory neutered it to salvage his Smarttrack pet as something slightly more the GO RER. Sad. Like I said I just hope they add the stop back at Lawrence and move on.
Elite People
New Member
I hope they switch back to the LRT plan.
Hopkins123
Senior Member
How many of us will even be alive or lucid enough to care about where the subway routes in 50 years time? How much more difficult will it be to convince constituents in 2067 to spend, for all we know, upwards of $4 billion per kilometre to build subways? We've witnessed what a moratorium on subway/metro expansion has cost Montreal. Do we really want to replicate their same mistake here?
Passing the buck is synonymous with doing nothing!