11-01-2018, 06:29 AM
(10-31-2018, 08:31 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I think the thing that is very clear from this whole thing is that there really is only one entity at fault here: Rob Ford.
Not true. Less than two years after he purported to cancel Transit City, Toronto City Council voted to re-instate it. Then what did Metrolinx and the provincial government do? Did they resume the projects where they had left off, in particular with the Sheppard LRT ready to begin construction? No! They delayed and delayed so that Finch has only just recently had a contract awarded and Sheppard has receded beyond the observable event horizon.
Rob Ford is to blame for just under 2 years of delay. Dalton McGuinty gets the blame for the rest.
It’s kind of funny. Right wingers are constantly referring to the Liberals as some sort of criminal enterprise (e.g., “McGuilty”, etc.) which of course is absurd; but they actually did do something big wrong. The thing they did wrong, though, is something most right wingers probably support: obfuscating and delaying public transit!