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Originally Posted by isaidso
What's left for public transit is pocket change. Our only option is LRT. We either build lots of LRT or congestion will bring Toronto to a grinding halt in the not too distant future. We're literally in panic mode trying to avert a transportation catastrophe here. 20 years of neglect has backed us into a corner.
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That's precisely the reason a lot of cities choose LRT over HRT, even though ridership could probably justify subways or elevevated rail in some of the cities building LRT. There is no question that subways are extremely expensive. Cities are not building LRT because its some shiny new toy, they're building LRT because something has to be done to avoid gridlock, and LRT is all they can afford. Waiting to "do it right" will result in waiting literally forever in a lot of cases. No, LRT is not the ideal solution in a lot of places, but it's a whole hell of a lot better than nothing, and that's the realistic alternative outside of a select few cities.