TJ O'Pootertoot
Senior Member
Makes me think that’s no progress will he made on any of these projects. They don’t want to explicitly cancel them and get the wrath of the ‘People’ nor do they want to spend the money on public transit. This is the best approach their advisers have given them. Stall stall stall. Then pitch it again in 2022 for their reelection.
I'm plenty cynical but even I don't think they actually WANT to cancel or delay. They may want to put pressure on Trudeau for funding but they didn't go through the rigamarole of uploading responsibility to the province - LITERALLY taking responsibility - so they can cancel or delay.
I do think that they either don't get that another review, another plan, wastes more time or that (less likely) they think they can stop, take a few months to review, and then come up with something that saves time at the back end. I don't buy the latter because of who we're dealing with. Rob famously kept saying he BUILT (past tense) the Scarborough subway and neither he nor Doug seem to comprehend that they took projects that would now be operational and threw them into a decade of limbo. The Yonge subway has basically been in stasis but the SSE and DRL keep getting LESS built the longer time goes on.
I'd be open to a plan that would do things faster, I just don't think there is one. These are all made up dates. Ontario Line by 2027? Sure, whatever. Sounds great. And now DOUG FORD wants to see if things could be built faster if they are aboveground??! Imagine if he'd thought of that in 2010.
Nah, they don't want to cancel things and stall. They're just dumb and/or incompetent.