Ah, but your question did not ask whether people think the project will be stopped. The question asked what we should do. If you had asked what UT commenters think WILL happen, the results might have been quite different.
The poll asked what I intended it to ask. And certainly corrected my misperception that those what want to cancel the LRT were a minority. On that I have no problem conceding I'm wrong.
That doesn't mean that I would then support cancelling it. Or stop criticizing those who do support cancelling it. It does mean though that I'll stop simply trying to blow them off.
I'm just completely perplexed that so many, want to spend so much effort to stop a project that politically would be extremely difficult to stop (mostly because of the 3-levels of government involved).
I really think one has to pick one's battles ... and there are so many other battles here that are much more winnable than this one. I think most of us agree that the Spadina extension north of Steeles shouldn't be happening, but for the same political reasons, I think stopping it would be near impossible, and the effort could be expended elsewhere.
We've seem this before - community groups fighting against a project looking for a different solution, and then loosing the first project, but not getting the other solution either. Take the Gardiner East expressway ... it was cancelled in the early 1970s and instead it was supposed to be replaced with a frequent electrified rail service along Lakeshore East with additional stations ... which 35 years later is yet to appear; the GO ALRT project having been cancelled in the early 1980s. Now in that case stopping the expressway was still probably best for the community in Toronto itself; though those in Scarborough might have preferred the expressway to the rail service that might finally appear 50 years later.
I think people are forgetting how difficult it is to get new projects started, and forgetting the lessons from the past!
At the same time it does make me take the opponents a bit more seriously ... and perhaps looking for a middle ground might make sense? Instead of pushing the subway off Sheppard to the south, to SC, then perhaps it should instead be pushed north to Finch, where all the people are!