If realized, it would be a very important legacy for the city: transit, and a willingness to pay for it. Josh Matlow, a leading Scarborough subway skeptic, called it “sad, desperate and shameful.” Others, not on council, were far less polite. Tory has promised that, too, and Toronto’s long-term mobility future hinges much more on that than on whether we build the Scarborough subway extension or not. The largest weak-mayor city council in the United States is Dallas’s, and it has 14 members. And when the Scarborough subway recently escalated in price to $3.2 billion, it reinvigorated LRT supporters.

Source: National Post June 29, 2016 02:26 UTC