<br>Toronto has always had bits of brilliant transit planning squished between large mounds of mediocrity.<br><br>Brilliance: Building capacity for trains under the Bloor Viaduct ages before the trains were designed.<br><br>
Mediocrity: Putting the northwest line in the ditch made by the Spadina Expressway cock-up.<br><br>Brilliance: maintaining streetcars in the face of political pressure and a continental shift away from them<br><br>Mediocrity: The Scarborough LRT<br>
<br>Brilliance: GO Transit, easily one of the best suburban commuter rail systems on the continent<br><br>Mediocrity: Inter-system squabbling prevents logical and deeper integration of regional and local transit.<br><br>Too much of Toronto's transit grid is designed to go through Union Station. This mentality has prevented consideration of valuable *existing* resources (such as the east-west train lines parallel to Dupont and Steeles that could serve transit well but are untouched by GO.) The downtown-centric mentality that encourages this "vision" will hopefully be shaken away by finally being forced to listen to the suburban voices.<br>
<br> - Evan<br><br>