tempperm
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The DRL was already on the books. I don't think it's that much of a stretch to juggle the schedule of the projects to move it up a tad.
or move extension down...
The DRL was already on the books. I don't think it's that much of a stretch to juggle the schedule of the projects to move it up a tad.
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I think the reasoning is valid to a point, but trying to attach the full cost of necessary upgrades to a project that accounts, by TTC reasoning, for 20% of the increase in ridership is setting up the upgrades proposal for failure and may end up causing some heartache down the road when, say, Transit City ends up forcing some other sort of upgrade.
Given that scenario it makes sense for Metrolinx not to waste cash upgrading Y/B and simply put that towards constructing a line that was on the books anyway.
Don't you see any danger in yet another round of "Wait, no, let's not do that. I have a better idea!" ?
The danger all depends on how good the strategic planners are at Metrolinx.
Prosperegal, PM me.
What's Metrolinx got to do with it?
They're the ones deciding the priorities right now. It all comes to down to how worthwhile Metrolinx thinks it is for the province to pitch in for a yonge/bloor refurb when that money could go to a line that was on the list.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like you are saying that Metrolinx needs to be involved because, for the DRL to happen, Metrolinx needs to reallocate money away from some other project to the DRL. I had not understood that you intended this as a zero-sum equation (DRL, therefore not something else that has already been agreed on). Now I get it.
No no. I don't mean this as a zero-sum game necessarily. That would be the worst case scenario for getting the DRL. In a more practical scenario (hopefully), Metrolinx could make the pitch to the province that accelerating spending on the DRL is better than spending money upgrading Yonge/Bloor. These days they are the agency that really controls policy and the purse strings. I think convincing them is the only way to get the DRL any time before 2020.