12-20-2018, 01:30 PM
I don't buy at all that this will have a significant impact on the tech scene of the area. Companies are coming here for a whole lot of reasons - all of them way more important (to them) than the transit situation. And its not like Ford is killing something that was going to have an immediate effect. We were talking about something that was happening in like 6 years (at the very earliest!).
I also don't think this is a 4-year delay really. The project has never been of a high enough importance that it was being moved forward. The whole negotiations with CN thing already felt like a bullshit excuse to pretend to do something but not actually have to do anything. Hopefully over the next 4 years it becomes clear that this really is something that we need and it will be resurrected as an actual priority with real solutions provided. And there have to be a whole host of solutions other than a 10-year process of negotiations and building a new line for CN.
I also don't think this is a 4-year delay really. The project has never been of a high enough importance that it was being moved forward. The whole negotiations with CN thing already felt like a bullshit excuse to pretend to do something but not actually have to do anything. Hopefully over the next 4 years it becomes clear that this really is something that we need and it will be resurrected as an actual priority with real solutions provided. And there have to be a whole host of solutions other than a 10-year process of negotiations and building a new line for CN.