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Great news! How fantastic this section will be when Yorkdale Arc-En-Ciel is finished

Only reason this needs to be said was he called the Scarborough LRT proposal a streetcar and he said it was terrible because it was not a subway.

Or from Alberta or the East Coast where the economy aint doing so well. Win win for everyone?

you're fast :P

That's interesting. If this goes ahead (and I'm not optimistic), it could finish around the same time as the 'planned' opening of the Ontario Line/SSE/EgWest Whomever is Premier at the time will be doing a lot of ribbon cutting

That's exactly it. The drivers talk. TTC drivers are friendly to their fellow TTC drivers so I'd imagine if the bus driver wanted to pass, the streetcar driver would understand and allow it.

That's plausible. Depends on how good the construction companies are at picking up the slack labour. Maybe have to attract people from other provinces to work here.

There is room to pass on King

All the money is not spend in one shot but spread out over years in the budget so it's not as heavy as it sounds. As an example, the current SSE and Eglinton West plans are 6.5 billion more than the original approved LRT plans. For that 6.5 billion, you could likely build the Sheppard LRT, a...

I think that's an excuse, comparing 1999 to today, the construction industry can handle building 20x more condos (i made that up), so why not build multiple infrastructure projects at once.

I think this is trotted out by successive governments but not true. They can magically blow money on a gas plant scandal yet for the same money could have built the Sheppard LRT. It's a not a limit that stops the government, it is a choice.

so another way the GTA is subsidizing the rest of the country :S

It's not about the city, it's about the GTAH. The population of the GTAH supports 2 teams regardless of where those teams are (within economic constraints)

I was wondering what leverage the province has as the McGuinty government claimed the contract was rock solid. What if there was a provincial tax on tolls of about $0.25/km? It makes the 407 lose value and then breaking the contract has less penalty???

Maybe someone with some knowledge would know but I doubt that it was part of the contract as there was no details about the OL at the time of contract signing to include anything more than a knock out panel.