TOareaFan
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Because it increases the GO system as a whole in the consciousness of people in the GTA. The more improvements happen GTA-wide, the more improvements will be demanded. By the same token, cancelling transit upgrades will only reduce awareness of transit in people's minds and make other projects that much less likely. Resources are limited, sure, but there's no fixed amount of money for transit. What we invest goes up and down based on who's in charge and what the people vote for. It's the same way that Transit City, despite doing nothing for downtown, has resulted in the DRL getting back on the political radar.
I don't think anyone was advocating "cancelling" anything (that is not what I read)...people were suggesting that in prioritizing how today's/tomorrow's limited resources are spent that large suburban municipalities (Markham and Brampton were suggested) should be higher up in the priority list for full service given their size/proximity to Toronto as compared to large, but more distant, cities like Hamilton and K-W.