Comments on: Mea Culpa

By: required

required — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:13:16 +0000

There is nothing wrong to admit you were wrong. I’m just wondering if there will eventually be a face palm about the Sheppard LRT too?

By: Simon Says

Simon Says — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:16:32 +0000

And allies fought allies as each protected their political careers whether it be not seen as raising taxes or trying to get subway when they previously voted down a subway.

By: torontopeter

torontopeter — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:55:04 +0000

Allow me to answer that.
It helps to compare the suggested Bloor-Danforth extension as a subway to STC versus the Sheppard subway Ford proposed but was shot down earlier this year.

1) Leveraging the provincial money allocated for SRT conversion to LRT — only $500 million more would be required to convert this to a subway, while the Sheppard subway extension proposal was estimated to cost $4.7 billion and was totally and fully unfunded.

2) Ridership — more ridership exists right now on the SRT than is projected to exist on the Sheppard subway extension

3) Keeping the SRT in service during construction — rather than shutting it down for LRT conversion, and using 160+ buses.

4) Politics. Building a Scarborough subway was thought to entice Scarborough councillor’s votes.

Let’s be honest, #4 was the primary argument and I expected better from Karen Stintz.

By: required

required — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:41:39 +0000

I may have missed it, so enlighten me. Why did they think it was better to have the subway to Scarborough City Centre instead of an LRT?