Written by Shaun Cleaver, TTCriders External Affairs Committee member
On Tuesday March 26th the Toronto Councillor for Ward 33, Shelley Carroll, hosted a public meeting to discuss public transit in the ward and in the city. Being a resident of Ward 33 (I live just south of Fairview Mall) I eagerly rode the #10 Van Horne to Pleasant View Community Centre to discuss plans to improve transit in our neighbourhood to increase our connectivity in the city and region. Surprising to me, the open dialogue portion of the meeting devolved into a repeat of the highly damaging “subway vs. light rail transit (LRT)” debate that unnecessarily delayed badly needed improvements to Toronto’s transit infrastructure.