Comment 26751

By monorail Monorail MONORAIL! (anonymous) | Posted September 28, 2008 at 21:46:51

A billion dollars to build a rail line across the city to replace what the Bee Line is already doing... Will it cross town any faster? Not likely if it is at street level and has to contend with the same cross traffic as the buses do now... What is the point exactly???

This Metrolinx money doesn't just fall from the sky like they pretend. No, it is coming out of all of our pockets through our taxes at some level... What percentage of the population will ever use the system or a regular basis? <10%? Is it really fair to expect some many to pay so much for so few? This is wasteful largess at its most extreme. They framed the study as if there was all this free money coming in so would you rather get a gold plated monorail or another rusty old bus? Where was the connection stated that the preferred rail option would cost like 5x as much money? Do you think people would really pick the grossly expensive option if they were told they'd be picking up the tab? Instead they say the funding comes from some futuristic new group called Metrolink that no one's ever heard of like pennies from heaven. Why not say, "Would you like us to rake in an extra one billion dollars from your taxes so that we can (give it to Metrolinx) build a train line through the middle of town where the buses are already getting the job done?" Then watch the survey results change. We're all getting snowed here as a minority of people who need subsidized transit to get around overwhelming support a plan to fleece everyone else while the media plays along with the free money story so the masses don't catch on... The apathy is revolting.

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