The hurt the city for years part is the part that really hurts me. If it were just a matter of toughing it out through the next four years, that'd be bad, but tolerable. It's that it's taken years of study and planning and securing funding to make Transit City possible, and Transit City would make the city more accessible for so many people. Scrapping all that work in favour of some half-baked, exponentially more expensive, unfunded idea will put accessible, sustainable transit years behind. We don't need subways. We need rapid, mass transit that connects the former boroughs to each other and to the core. I really don't care whether that transit comes in the form of streetcars, subways, or zeppelins as long as it happens quickly, safely, and in a way that will allow as many people as possible to use it.

Also? It takes a lot more work to make subways universally accessible than it does rapid transit.