Adjei
Senior Member
Another negative article from the Toronto Star about this line..
Toronto Ontario Line 3 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx
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tiffer24
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"No more backroom deals." Doug Ford, August 16, 2018
https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1349341
The secret Metrolinx documents also confirmed that the province secretly hired Michael Schabas to oversee the new line and leaked details of Ford's transit plans to the Toronto Sun the day before his announcement.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1349341
The secret Metrolinx documents also confirmed that the province secretly hired Michael Schabas to oversee the new line and leaked details of Ford's transit plans to the Toronto Sun the day before his announcement.
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TheTigerMaster
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I’m sorry, did you expect the media to get down on their knees for Doug Ford?
Direct your angst towards the government that has decided to make all these decisions in secret. If the government doesn’t want the media snooping around, they oughta not conduct themselves as if they’re engaging in shady backroom dealing. You really expect the media just to look the other way on that?
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TheTigerMaster
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Secrecy. Why all this secrecy? It’s a bloody subway line.
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
This is the same guy that proposed SmartTrack, and suggested it would eliminate the need for the DRL. Not exactly confidence inspiring
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Adjei
Senior Member
""The presentation argued Toronto transit construction had stalled in the 1970s due to the TTC and city’s preference for expensive underground tunnelled subways."
www.thestar.com
Truer words have never been spoke..
How Ford’s Ontario Line plan came together in just three months — with secrecy, a shifting route and a consultant
More than 5,600 pages of internal Metrolinx documents reveals the Ontario Line was dreamed up by a private consultant, who pitched the concept in January 2019. Three months later the premier would announce it as the “crown jewel” of his transit plans.
www.thestar.com
Truer words have never been spoke..
mdu
Active Member
Whatever you think about the merits of light vs. heavy or tunneled/elevated/at-grade, there's been ample speculation both in the media and on this forum that the plan was rapidly thrown together. As the article puts it, scribbled on the back of a napkin. This article confirms these rumors with not just "it's obvious" but internal documents.
Hopkins123
Senior Member
Hit piece, gotcha journalism at its most deplorable.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Is it? What's so secret that needs to be blacked out in its' entirety in an FOIA request? It ain't CSIS.
Is that private consultant Neptis by any chance?
Mentioned by name in the article.
AoD
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Adjei
Senior Member
I will be here next week when they publish their weekly hit piece against this line. They hate this line with a passion
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
This alignment looks potentially preferable, in the sense that it doesn’t result in a loss of railway capacity
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
This guy sounds like a certain monorail salesman ?
Northern Light
Superstar
""The presentation argued Toronto transit construction had stalled in the 1970s due to the TTC and city’s preference for expensive underground tunnelled subways."
How Ford’s Ontario Line plan came together in just three months — with secrecy, a shifting route and a consultant
More than 5,600 pages of internal Metrolinx documents reveals the Ontario Line was dreamed up by a private consultant, who pitched the concept in January 2019. Three months later the premier would announce it as the “crown jewel” of his transit plans.
Truer words have never been spoke..
More ill-informed, generalization without intellectual foundation is what was spoken, and what you posted.
mdu
Active Member
Just because the city made past mistakes with building subways instead of LRT (the fairly useless Sheppard spur) doesn't mean that the DRL specifically shouldn't be subway.