(02-01-2020, 05:11 AM)Square Wrote:(01-31-2020, 06:35 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: One thing I will say about that merry band: at least we know we’re not getting HSR. With the Liberals, we were just starting to think that maybe, just maybe, it was going to happen.
I had the same thought. During the election, I thought why should I vote for the Liberals, when she had 4 years to start doing something, but all her government did was more environmental assessments that was done in the last 40 years.
This wasn’t the only issue on which the Liberals did this. Toronto’s Transit City was not built primarily because the Liberals didn’t proceed with it. It is true that an almost 2 year delay was caused by Ford’s meddling, but less than 2 years after Ford’s mayoral term began, Council voted to return to a version of Transit City. If the provincial government had simply continued the process from where it had been paused, the Sheppard LRT would by now have been in operation for years, and the Scarborough RT replacement LRT would be under construction or maybe even complete.
On HSR it’s arguably even worse: they had 15 years, from 2003 to 2018. Are the Liberals actually different from the Conservatives, or not? I would like to think that electing Liberals will lead to real progress on rationalizing our transportation infrastructure (which in our context pretty much means building a lot of non-road choices), but that doesn’t seem to be the history. I would still take normal Liberal incompetence over Conservative insanity any day, but it’s hard to be really enthusiastic about voting for run-of-the-mill.