When Toronto City Council voted down the ambitious OneCity plan Wednesday night, it became only the latest transit vision to be dashed.

Ours is a city of transit dreamers, not doers (which in some cases was a good thing). In the last 100 years, more than 50 transit ideas have been considered.

Here are a few of the flops:

The Metropolitan Toronto Transportation Plan

The dream: A mix of transit and roads that included the controversial Spadina Expressway, and new subways in central Toronto, including along Queen St.

The demise: Jane Jacobs led a protest against the Spadina Expressway, ultimately cancelling the remaining construction. By 1972, the provincial government called for an entirely new transit plan in an effort to reduce the use of cars.

The Intermediate Capacity Transit System Plan

The dream: Using rail technology known as intermediate capacity transit — similar to light rail transit, but with more capacity — to connect the city. It was to run east-west along Finch and Eglinton Aves. and form a big, wide U through downtown.

The demise: One small part of the plan, now known as the Scarborough RT, went ahead. But it was largely abandoned after a 1970s report on transit that determined higher capacity transit (read: subways) was needed.

The Network 2011 plan

The dream: A combination of a downtown relief line and subway lines for Sheppard and Eglinton, the latter including a new development with GO transit and bus terminals.

The demise: Premier Mike Harris’s government axed the Eglinton West subway, even though work had already begun. The Sheppard subway went ahead, the downtown relief line was “put on hold” — to this day.

The Transit City plan

The dream: Light rail transit routes across Toronto, including a transit corridor on Finch Ave. W. and lines along Don Mills Rd., Jane St. and Eglinton Ave.

The demise: “Transit City is over,” were Mayor Rob Ford’s words in December 2010, his first day in office. He called for a new transit plan with only underground rail lines. Despite Ford’s proclamation, city council still approved four key components of the plan: the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown LRT, the conversion of the Scarborough RT to LRT, LRT on Sheppard East and on Finch West.

The OneCity plan

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The dream: A $30-billion, 175-kilometre city-wide transit expansion that would include six subway lines, 10 LRTs and five bus and streetcar routes.

The demise: Some councillors felt parts of OneCity came too late. Others thought TTC chair Karen Stintz faltered when she backed down on her idea to hike property taxes to pay for a third of the pricey expansion.