[someMidTowner]

The gap is closing fast!

 

[SaugeenJunction]

The gap is closing fast!
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Screw you Mike Harris! Eglinton Ave will have rapid transit. It might be almost 20 years late, but its coming, and fast!!

 

[TheTigerMaster]

The gap is closing fast!
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Good. Let's get those TBMs acrosstown, rip em out the ground, dig some holes for stations, put some rails in and bam, we're ready for service. Simple.

 

[Johnny Au]

Mike Harris only delayed the inevitable. He was unable to stop rapid transit in Eglinton, even in his lifetime.

The Eglinton Crosstown LRT would spite on Harris, just by existing.

 

[Amare]

One of the biggest crooks in Canadian political history.

 

[kotsy]

Now if we could just reinstate the provincial transit subsidy for Toronto that he took away!

 

[Markster]

Mike Harris only delayed the inevitable. He was unable to stop rapid transit in Eglinton, even in his lifetime.

The Eglinton Crosstown LRT would spite on Harris, just by existing.

He wasn't against a subway on Eglinton; he was just against the province paying for anything ever.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

He wasn't against a subway on Eglinton; he was just against the province paying for anything ever.

If North Bay (Harris' riding) didn't get a subway, nobody should.

 

[Catenary]

If North Bay (Harris' riding) didn't get a subway, nobody should.

North Bay got a 4 lane freeway instead!

 

[TheTigerMaster]

100 years from now Torontonians will still be talking about Harris as if he murdered their dog.

 

[Johnny Au]

100 years from now Torontonians will still be talking about Harris as if he murdered their dog.

That would be in history textbooks. Harris would go down in history as among the worst Ontario premiers (along with Wynne's sale of Hydro One).

 

[BurlOak]

The tough part is that if you are mad at Harris for cancelling the subway, then you must be opposed to the current LRT - because if Harris did not cancel it, then LRT would not be possible.

Alternatively, you can be happy that Harris cancelled the subway to allow LRT to be built.

The only people who have a right to be mad at Harris are those who think Eglinton should have been built as subway in its entirety.

 

[salsa]

100 years from now Torontonians will still be talking about Harris as if he murdered their dog.

Lest we forget.

 

[dowlingm]

The tough part is that if you are mad at Harris for cancelling the subway, then you must be opposed to the current LRT - because if Harris did not cancel it, then LRT would not be possible.

Alternatively, you can be happy that Harris cancelled the subway to allow LRT to be built.

The only people who have a right to be mad at Harris are those who think Eglinton should have been built as subway in its entirety.

Is it not fair to say that the LRT currently being built for Crosstown - 90m trains of low floor LRVs - was not an available option during the Harris era Eglinton project?

 

[Riverdale Rink Rat]

The tough part is that if you are mad at Harris for cancelling the subway, then you must be opposed to the current LRT - because if Harris did not cancel it, then LRT would not be possible.

Alternatively, you can be happy that Harris cancelled the subway to allow LRT to be built.

The only people who have a right to be mad at Harris are those who think Eglinton should have been built as subway in its entirety.

Why? The two are separated by years of time. If the subway was in place, Toronto transit decisions would be very different now. That's nonsensical.