12-02-2021, 06:10 PM
(12-02-2021, 05:53 PM)KevinL Wrote: The cancellation of the freight bypass is completely on the current government; once they chose not to fund it, Metrolinx had no choice but consider lesser options. I have my concerns with many things that agency does, but this one is not their fault.
It's "not their fault" only in that they are different from the existing government.
What is their fault is pretending to go along with the lie that cancelling the freight bypass costs us nothing. Even now, nobody is pointing out that this is WHY they can no longer electrify the line.
A true arms length crown corporation should have been able to make these tradeoffs clear. Instead they played along and pretended that cancelling the freight line is just fine and it was just the wasteful liberals who wanted it for nothing more than the usual corruption.
And I'm sure when the liberals return they will act in the same way towards the liberals.
And we will continue to get fucked over with shit transit and wasteful highways.
Metrolinx SHOULD be a political organization, one that advances the interests of transit, not the interests of the governing party.