Subway Nation rises again. ⇒
24 September 2013, late morning
The Conservatives know how to play the game. They are coughing up about half has much as the province is for this stupid subway to my parents’ house, but somehow the Liberals look like the assholes. This whole story is actually pretty disappointing.
We must dispense with the fantasy that the decision-making process around transit will ever again be driven by technical, financial, planning or consultative considerations. For the foreseeable future, major transit investment moves in Toronto will be entirely determined by council and its electoral politics, and by the narrative that Ford has provided, which is that we should settle for nothing less than subways — cost, efficacy, and planning considerations be damned.
Sounds about right. They are building this subway in two years, apparently. I’ll believe it when I see it. I wonder if LRTs as a viable transit option are more or less dead in this city?
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