bill r
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Plan B -Another attempt at SSE alternative
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/transit-fantasy-maps.3005/page-302#post-1198398
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/transit-fantasy-maps.3005/page-302#post-1198398
Unfortunately, the ship has sailed for SmartSpur. It would require much more extensive and costly upgrades for the whole rail corridor all the way to Union and beyond. Surely, such upgrades would bring massive benefits, not limited to improving transit in Scarborough.
That's not true. The Next Wave was only a subset of the Big Move 15-year project list - it doesn't include projects on the 25-year list. When the Big Move was revised in 2013 (Ford was mayor), the Scarborough-Malvern line was retained in the 25-year category (though the next wave DRL project was moved from the 25-year list to the 15-year list).It was off the Provinces "Next wave'. Next wave meaning unfunded projects maybe to be funded in 15-25 years. But it was taken off that list and never returned. It was Toast as far as the Province was concerned during the end of Millers term and the Ford years.
That's not true. The Next Wave was only a subset of the Big Move 15-year project list - it doesn't include projects on the 25-year list. When the Big Move was revised in 2013 (Ford was mayor), the Scarborough-Malvern line was retained in the 25-year category (though the next wave DRL project was moved from the 25-year list to the 15-year list).
It will end up costing $7 billion and the tunneling will get abandoned and mothballed so at the end of the day Scarborough will get no rapid transit and would have spent a shitload of money for nothing.
Possibly because the initial cost spitball was always a politically-driven fantasy.I still don't understand why costs keep going up so fast in such a short period of time.
Possibly because the initial cost spitball was always a politically-driven fantasy.
As nothing more than a lowly voting, tax paying, citizen it would really depend on whether the cost overrun during construction was unanticipated/unexpected or (as your question seems to suggest...sorry if that is not the case) a result of knowing, but not reporting, the actual cost at the time of planning. Nothing in life is guaranteed, so costs do go up....but nothing irks me more than the intentional, and cynical, low balling of estimated costs just to get a project approved....then letting reality seep in once it is "too late".Are cost overruns during construction perceived better or worse than cost increases prior to construction. I would say the former because then something is actually being built and would be stupid to stop, but the latter will discourage starting construction. So which is worse?
I still don't understand why costs keep going up so fast in such a short period of time.
It will end up costing $7 billion and the tunneling will get abandoned and mothballed so at the end of the day Scarborough will get no rapid transit and would have spent a shitload of money for nothing.
I never want to hear how the liberals should be voted out for wasting money on the gas plant again