MisterF
Senior Member
Well surely then it would be fair to compare Toronto to the bigger German and French cities, which managed to build themselves pretty decent mass transit systems of their own while paying into other countries as well.I'm not opposed to such funds. But given how much of it went to infrastructure (our similar funding simply goes to the provincial government), I don't think discussing the "Madrid Miracle" is fair ... imagine how much better we'd be if we diverted the $billions from the F-18s, F-35s, and all these new warships to transit systems in our bigger cities.
In any case I think the impact the EU has had on the Madrid metro is overblown. Most of Spain is a recipient of EU funds, but Madrid and western Spain are contributors. EU or no EU, Toronto is playing catchup.