Hate to break it to you, but if you're looking for a step forward with transit, Rob Ford is not the answer. He's paying lip service to subway expansion, that's all. I don't believe for a second he's actually sincere about widespread subway expansion. We may get a line or so in the next decade, but that's about all. I'm all for having TC replaced, but replacing it with Rob Ford's transit "vision" is not a viable option.
Lol. "A line or so in the next decade...", um isn't that precisely what SOS has been after all along? If we could get a line to the airport and another line to Scarborough Town Centre completed within this decade, would that not be a remarkable feat of the right mix of political will and fiscally responsible building protocol? I ask you this seriously because I'm wondering what it is you even stand for at this point.
Voting for Rob Ford to expand transit is like voting for Jack Layton to lower taxes. It ain't gonna happen. Anyone deluding themselves into thinking it actually will deserves Rob Ford as their mayor. His "transit plan" is nothing more than a political ploy to lure gullable subway-wanting voters who think that Ford will actually be sincere with his campaign promises of transit expansion.
Okay, fair enough. I have yet to see Ford's transit plan. I will be just as critical on it as anyone else here if I find it to be BS. Everytime I've contacted him though he's reassured me that he has the connections to make it happen, and by the way that he has been going after some blantantly obvious cogs in the wheel *cough* socialist silly hall councillors/ATU Local 113 *cough*, I'm of the belief that by taking back the agenda from those narrow interests, that will put the public's consensus right at the front of the line. 93% of Torontonians polled by the Toronto Star stated subways as their preferred choice. The populist candidate has run on a mandate of listening to the constituents, not on what politicians want to
force down the public's throats and through their backyards. No one wants the imposition of building a surface "streetcar" line through their neighbourhood, no one beyond a fringe percentage of citizens. BRT is affordable and quick to build and is suited to suburban ridings like Ford's where ridership will never justify the high price-tag for light-rail. We could be blanketing the whole city with them right away for the same or less expense than Transit City along only 4 corridors. Time and again
for years Ford has stated that a city of Toronto's size needs more buses and subways.
If you want to vote for him despite his racism, biggotry, and numerous f***-ups, fine. If you want to vote for him because you think he'll get hookers and blow for everyone in the city, fine (I wouldn't put it past him to have both of those at his celebration party if he wins). But don't vote for him because you think you'll be getting a viable transit network under his leadership.
Instead of belittling me for looking at the big picture here and seeing that the TC agenda
will go through so long as Toronto/Ontario continues to elect in self-interested union-loving career politicians; need I remind certain individuals that’s posting here that the window of opportunity to present Rob Ford with your suggestions for subway expansion is still very open for business (unlike the nonresponsive Thomson/Smitherman campaigns)? Time wasted here arguing with (or on behalf of) LRTistas ad nauseum won’t change anything, getting a frontrunner mayoral candidate n’sync with your viewpoints can.
