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[ijmorlan]

I don't know what transit system you are referring to. The ION is certainly not dirty. That you call it that shows that you do not ride it. It may be not as fast as we like, but it is certainly not unreliable, barring idiot motor vehicle drivers who crash into it and the occasional ice storm. I doubt that the many people who use it every day would characterize it the way you do. The bus network is very good. I have stops for three routes within a block of my apartment, and a fourth an extra 5 minutes walk away. While I prefer to ride my bike most of the time, I use GRT regularly and have never had any problems with it.

Of “slow, dirty and unreliable”, Ion is 1 (slow). It should be much faster, and better reliability wouldn’t be a bad thing but I don’t think it qualifies as “unreliable”.

Mentioning a subway is just silly. In our context it’s the kind of thing that anti-transit people bring up to avoid progress being made on reasonable transit projects. Given construction costs, likely ridership, and the overall layout of the city, it would make way more sense to build multiple LRT lines. When the Toronto subway first opened, it replaced a streetcar line that had something like a streetcar every minute, with every one packed to the rafters, and much of the initial line was actually surface running (and some of it still is, although some of the original surface running area has been built over).