And Byford's successor, assuming the SSE is built, will somehow have to find the funding to meet the losses incurred on operating this white elephant. I can see 3 out of 4 trains being short-turned at Kennedy in a desperate effort to minimize the bleeding on the SSE. A $10/ride subsidy, anyone? 

Essentially, the SSE is a >$4B public cost to get John Tory re-elected- and a multi-billion dollar benefit to Oxford Properties (owner of SCT). With Scarberians being denied full, higher-order public transit coverage- but with interminable bus rides to STC- forever...