Who wins in Toronto’s on-going transit follies? Noooobody! says former mayor Mel Lastman.

Megacity Mel was at City Hall Thursday for a special ceremony honouring mayors who served Toronto before amalgamation — and he couldn’t resist putting in his two cents about Toronto’s endless transit debates.

“(Scarborough residents) are going to get one station, there’s going to be a lot of unhappy people,” he said of the current proposal for a one-stop Scarborough subway line. “They take the one station and then they’ll have to take a bus back to where they want to go and it’s just going to be chaos. It’s too bad, but at the same time, if they don’t build it, everybody’s going to say, ‘We’re never going to get it.’”

Lastman became the first mayor of an amalgamated Toronto, which was known as the megacity after six municipalities were merged into a single metropolis on Jan. 1, 1998. Prior to that, he served as the mayor for North York.

Always an outspoken civic leader, Lastman said no matter what council decides about the subway, taxpayers will lose.

“Everybody loses,” he insisted. “You know, the time to win was years ago when the province came to Metro Toronto and said ‘We will pay for the entire subway, we will pay for the stations, we will pay for the operating cost. We will pay everything.’ And they didn’t jump.”

But asked if they should scrap the subway and go back to the LRT plan, he said “No”.

“I think you have to go ahead,” he added. “Whichever way they decide, I’m not going to tell them what to decide. I know the people who live there will be unhappy if they don’t get anything. They haven’t received anything for many, many years. And it was because of the politicians, it wasn’t because of them.”