Actually, another thing to think about: would the scuttling of the GLX "solve" the affordable housing crisis? Sure, it would be horrible for commercial development as well as environmental mitigation, but putting that aside for a moment... if there's no GLX, suddenly all those investment properties would no longer be such good investments. And those of us who've been living here quite happily without the GLX would be able to continue to do so, and maybe would be able to afford all those luxury units that had been built to court GLX commuters. I guess the question is whether no GLX would result in a dystopian wasteland of luxury units unaffordable for those who want to live here and unwanted by those who can afford them (as I've mostly assumed til this moment), or if possibly the end of the GLX dream would pierce the bubble in such a way that prices would fall and benefit those remaining for whom our current level of public transit is good enough. Hmm. Thoughts?

Gee, it's fun to be able to publicly hypothesize on controversial topics now that I'm an also-ran. :)