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I personally don't give a flying fuck whether they expand with streetcars, subways, build a mono rail for all I care. The important thing is to pick a strategy and stick with it through multiple political parties. It takes so long to plan, propose a solution, get funding approved, and then finally break ground and do the work. If you have every mayor coming into office switching things up there won't be any expansion whatsoever, who cares what form it comes in.
As for a car I see both sides to it. It's great having one and avoiding a lot of the BS with taking the TTC. But at the same time if you live downtown, work downtown, eat downtown, play downtown etc etc... In my building for example parking is $150 a month to rent, ($35k + annual taxes/condo fees to own), insurance at $100 a month, add in any gas used and maintenance + payments if you leased or financed. You'll be looking anywhere from $300-$700 per month just to have your standard car. It's insane to pay that when you use it maybe once a week here and there. Hard argument to make telling someone who pays house prices for a large hotel room of a condo unit just to be downtown that they should also pay that kind of cash to avoid the TTC. Half the time traffic and dumbass drivers piss me off just as much as the issues on public transpo would anyways.
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good guess but iam far from it...
