The population of Toronto is 3M. Half is 1.5M. GTA is 7M. And even if people don't own a car, they get to places by car via car pools or ride shares or taxis.Sure, but about half of Toronto doesn't own cars or need them downtown.
Do you think that serving 1M people at the expense of 6M car owners makes sense or will even have much of an impact?
The problem from day 1 has been the idiocy of all of our previous councils/mayors in not focussing on giving us a proper subway system. What we have is Mickey Mouse. Let's study this, let's table that etc. etc. then a new mayor comes in and they start all over again. City of Montreal is 1.7M and metro Montreal is 4.5M and I wouldn't be surprised if they had double or even triple the miles of track than we do. Who wants to stand outside in the snow, rain, heat, cold waiting for so-called rapid transit when underground is so much more comfortable. Comfort and convenience which approximates that of a car will get them to change their habits.
Too bad it's kinda late for that now for Toronto. No proposal will work unless it's comfortable and convenient. Bikes provide neither and cater to probably less than 5% of GTA population.
Toronto and Ontario and even the Feds need to suck it up and do some ma$$ive digging to free up our roadways. We are Canada's economic hub.