cplchanb
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Is anyone else surprised how fast this thing happened? It took like a year to pick a consultant to design the DRL...
thats what you get when you dont have government interfering with a large infrastructure project.
Is anyone else surprised how fast this thing happened? It took like a year to pick a consultant to design the DRL...
thats what you get when you dont have government interfering with a large infrastructure project.
There are 15 members on the GTAA board.
- 5 are appointed by regional governments (York, Halton, Peel, Durham, Toronto)
- 2 are appointed by the federal government
- 1 is appointed by the Ontario government.
That's a majority. The remaining 7 are selected by the current board (so, voted in by the majority government appointed officials) by groups like the Toronto Board of Trade, Brampton Board of Trade, and Mississauga Board of Trade which are more than a little political in nature.
Government is quite involved in Pearson Airport.
This is what you get from Government when the wishy-washy public doesn't have direct influence over it.
There are 15 members on the GTAA board.
- 5 are appointed by regional governments (York, Halton, Peel, Durham, Toronto)
- 2 are appointed by the federal government
- 1 is appointed by the Ontario government.
That's a majority. The remaining 7 are selected by the current board (so, voted in by the majority government appointed officials) by groups like the Toronto Board of Trade, Brampton Board of Trade, and Mississauga Board of Trade which are more than a little political in nature.
Government is quite involved in Pearson Airport.
This is what you get from Government when the wishy-washy public doesn't have direct influence over it.
Border and customs agents are being pulled from the Greater Toronto Area to handle a a “significant” influx of asylum seekers across the U.S. border into Quebec over the summer months.
The move is expected to lead to delays for travellers embarking from overseas and U.S. flights at Toronto’s Pearson International airport – the country’s busiest airport – and land-border crossings in southern Ontario.
A Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) memo, obtained by The Globe and Mail, says agents in the Greater Toronto Area will be dispatched to Quebec to alleviate the pressure from “a significant increase in the number of refugee claimants arriving in Canada without passing through a port of entry.”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/pol...gta-to-quebec-border-to-handle-migrant-surge/One Air Canada pilot, who spoke on background, said passengers could be expected to sit on the tarmac for up to an hour or more.
At least at Terminal there's a ton of kiosks which greatly reduces the need for inspectors. Been a while since I have flown through T1; do they have the kiosks there as well?
I had the pleasure of disembarking off a long-haul onto buses today in the pouring rain - from a fully-loaded 400-passenger AC 777. Took about 10-15 minutes just to get the stairs in place, with flight crew making periodic announcements to apologize profusely for not being able to obtain a gate. I guess this is going to happen a lot more, with GTAA not planning to build a single new widebody gate anytime soon despite the huge growth at Pearson.
Can only imagine what will happen if they have to do this in January.
I had the pleasure of disembarking off a long-haul onto buses today in the pouring rain - from a fully-loaded 400-passenger AC 777. Took about 10-15 minutes just to get the stairs in place, with flight crew making periodic announcements to apologize profusely for not being able to obtain a gate. I guess this is going to happen a lot more, with GTAA not planning to build a single new widebody gate anytime soon despite the huge growth at Pearson.
Can only imagine what will happen if they have to do this in January.
AC = Air CanadaThat sucks. Which airline?