Don’t forget the mayhem that Karen Stinz (a Councillor, and potential mayoral wannabe) and the Glen DeB factions have wreaked on Council’s transit decisions. Frankly, the Matlow faction has driven some diversions of its own.
Toronto has certainly been poorly served by its Mayors on the transit file ( I still rank Lastman as the most egregious of all, with his self centered wasting of the little money the City was able to earmark for transit on a self serving Sheppard Line that went nowhere) ..... mayors may have been in the center of the ring, but Council has contributed its share of lions and elephants and a few dozen trapese artists to this ongoing circus.