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Originally Posted by SkahHigh
What's so bad about Scarborough? Sorry, I'm from Montreal haha
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There isn't really anything bad with it, it would be a fairly busy line. it's just the conditions around it that are getting people angry, and the way it has been proposed. Up until august it was a fully funded LRT line that would replace the Scarborough RT, but in August the Province said that if council wanted to they could make it a subway. Ford wanted a subway because "Scarborough deserves it" (the same reasons he supports a finch and sheppard subway, which are extremely useless and can barely support LRT yet alone subways), and not for actual reason such as eliminating a transfer, a much quicker ride in (as you wouldn't have a transfer), making the Sheppard LRT make more sense, and the fact that it has more than enough ridership to be justified. I think the thing that is pissing people off is that $85 million had already been sunk into the LRT line, and it was a plan that had been supported for nearly 4 years, and it was suddenly cancelled. There was a much cheaper plan, already in place, and it got cancelled for something much different and delayed the opening by 3 years. If the Subway had been the solution from the beginning, nobody would have cared.
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