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Unless you have inside info (and I suspect you don't) this is totally your personal spin on internal discussions to which you were not privy, right? I'm guessing you can't back up any of this "begrudging" or "lukewarm" stuff based on knowledge of the people or process.
In 2014 (i.e after the Big Move update and well into the City's DRTES) Pritchard cautioned Toronto that it "shouldn't get ahead of ourselves" or "seize on one solution". That a RL "involves potentially subway" and "involves buses". In other words after taking years to acknowledge the importance and actual necessity of the line, and including it in the RTP, they still tried to weasel out of making a subway official. This from the agency that greenlights subways elsewhere at the drop of a hat.
As for the roughshod comment - how can you know so many little things and so little understand how government and planning work?
In 2015 while the City's DRTES was practically finalized, Metrolinx released a new YRNS report that carried-forward unworkable and backward things such as a Front Street tram relief line, and a surface line that bypassed Don Mills and completely bypassed Thorncliffe - a priority neighbourhood of tens of thousands. In other words they still hadn't accepted an RL and were presenting ideas that ran roughshod over the City's past plans like DMLRT, their own RTP, current RL plans, and TO's general transit-building criteria. And Metrolinx didn't "finish" YRNS. They seemingly dropped it when less than a year ago the Prov decided to come to the table and aid the City's plans.
As you've told me and this thread many times, what happens outside Toronto is not Toronto's problem. But it IS Metrolinx's.
I never wrote that, ditto for many of the other untrue things you manically try to namedrop me into.