threnody
Active Member
How many times has this been announced in the last couple of years?
Actual committed funding from the feds and province? Zero times.How many times has this been announced in the last couple of years?
Announced once in January in 2009 by Flaherty and in 2000 as well by then Liberal Transport Minister David Collenette.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/578966
Since the vast majority of people using the station are 905ers I expect the feds will be pretty quick on this one.
And as for the 2009 mention from Flaherty, that Star article was misleading. The actual mention of Union in the budget documents was in a list of possible infrastructure projects, NOT a confirmed mention of Union as a project.
I'm not disputing that, but the actual budget documents made it clear it was just a possible project. So today's announcement does seem to have been progress of a sort - and yet they have apparently still not signed an actual agreement with the City.This sounds as committal as yesterday's announcement to me, sans photo op:
Union station=65 millions passengers
Pearson=32 Millions passengers
I'm not saying that Pearson should get billions liake Pearson in Gov. funds but 305 M$ is ridiculous.