I ' d be fine with a massive network of LRT . I would be absolutely 100 % behind turning a few of the major traffic corridors into transit and pedestrian corridors . You and I are in complete agreement . Say turn Eglington , St . Claire , Jane , Queen , Dufferin , and Yonge into transit and walking only , with overunderpasses so traffic could still move . The people of Toronto , who fucking love their cars and love parking lots and strip malls every twenty feet , will not . The businesses , who despite all of the evidence otherwise , will not . So it will need to be elevated , and then we ' re back to nearly the same cost as a Subway . I also disagree that Toronto has a huge discrepancy of density with other major centres . Yes , it ' s not the same as London let alone Hong Kong , Singapore , Seoul , thanks for not using those outrageous juxtapositions but that doesn ' t mean that the city can ' t have a functioning system . I ' d love for the subway map to look something like Berlin ' s a city with a population half that of the GTA but that would take a tremendous amount of political will , and is not feasible now . But the current state is beyond embarrassing , and frankly , pathetic .