Toronto will never go big on 'transit'.  Toronto is financially broke.  Governments only get bigger and spend more.   An extra 'Billion' on top of the costs for repairing 'The Gardiner Expressway', now it is '$3.2 Billion'.

The 'VOTERS' have deserved what they have gotten over the years, since the early 1980's.   

There are too many gatekeepers in the way.  The only way things will change is when someone is in power starts to kick some serious butt, which means raising property taxes, and raising parking fees and taxes, and other fees and fines. 

When it costs $25 a hour to park your car, that will change people's habits.   A '$2 Toll' does not accomplish anything., that is just chump change.  

Look Humber River/Lakeshore BLVD West, 'an hour' to get yourself downtown.  What a joke. 

Take a look at New York City Tolls; 
George Washington Bridge, $15
Lincoln Tunnel, $15
Holland Tunnel, $15 
Queens Midtown Tunnel, $8 

Toronto is barely a reactive city, not a proactive city at all !