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Subways. Subways subways subways subways. Matt Gurney, Jonathan Goldsbie, and Chris Selley talk all about subways. But pay no attention, the whole discussion is irrelevant.

Gurney There’s so many ways to approach this week’s transit developments that I almost don’t even know where to start. No matter how you spin this, Mayor Ford comes off looking bad. What astounds me — and I thought he’d lost the ability to astound me — was how at each juncture, after taking a metaphorical punch in the face, he somehow found a way to double-down and make it worse for himself. My favourite example by far was when he declared that the province wanted subways, only to be instantly contradicted by the province, who made the entirely sensible statement that they’d feel obligated to honour the will of council (that no one bothered to [ital]ask the province first [endital]is a sign that both sides of this dispute need a hard slap upside the head, but I digress). I’m not really sure if there’s a way for the Mayor or his allies to even begin trying to make lemonade out of last week’s bountiful citrus surplus, but if there is any remotely good news for the Mayor it might be that he’s not a lame duck quite yet, as some of his critics (including some in the media) were quick to gleefully declare. I figure he has too much power and too much time left in his mandate to become irrelevant, despite his best efforts. But that’s where the good news stops, I guess. I’m genuinely curious as to what he does next. Has he finally realized that he’s lost, or will he spend his remaining time in power throwing wrenches into the gears? You’d like to think he’d get behind Council’s vision and begin mending fences so he can advance his agenda in other areas, but his obsession with subways seems to possess an almost supernatural grip on him.