As Mayor Rob Ford and his loyalists duke it out with Karen Stintz and her allies to the mayor's plan for subways or the highway is getting out of hand on this important issue, we need to resolve this once and for all and bring it to the people.  Let there be a referendum: Transit City or subways?

This way we can get this issue resolved and start building, whether it be Transit City or subways.  We know that the costs will always be a lot more than expected as we have seen the St. Clair fiasco project that took years to build and costs skyrocketed.  Once it was built, the blame game of what had happened and who was to blame just kept going around and around.  So cost should not be the overriding factor, but what will best serve us for today and the long-term.

Because transit will be an important part of the City of Toronto's future, we really need to let the people decide, not mayor Rob Ford or city councillors as when we had entrusted them to do so, they play political games instead.  There is now even news from the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail that the chief general manager, Gary Webster, who's been with the TTC for 35 years is in line to be fired because he had disagreed with mayor Rob Ford.  Mr. Gary Webster, who rose through the ranks from being an engineer to becoming the chief general manager, name is being praised for his performance on the job and vilify, at the same time, from people commenting on their sites.

Of course, there will be people shouting about the cost of a referendum, but the mandate of the people outweighs the costs as we have seen monies from both the left and right spent on pet projects that did not get the promised return on investment expected.  As this is the only sure way to know what the people really want, we cannot leave this matter to politicians anymore.  Some might come out and argue against the cost of a referendum, well consider this, if the reports are true that should Mr. Gary Webster be dismissed earlier than the end of his contract of March 2013, then between $400,000 to $500,000 just went down the toilet.  We will then all agree if that happens then what's a bit of more change thrown to the black hole of pay, pay, pay and no better service or any kind of return.  (Just look no further then the G20 debacle that had cost approximately over $1 billion, give or take a few hundred millions.)

For people who agree with the call for a referendum, you should write to your city councillors and our beloved mayor Rob Ford today to let them know what's on your minds.