11-01-2018, 04:01 PM
(11-01-2018, 08:04 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(11-01-2018, 06:29 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: 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!
So I'm confused here, wasn't Transit City a Toronto project? How is the province to blame, unless they withheld funding, or unless something else changed to cause the province to be involved. If anything, it really just shows uploading the province isn't a good idea.
I’m not totally clear. It was a Toronto proposal, but a Metrolinx project. I’m now thinking that the province promised funding, on the basis that they would be Metrolinx projects — rather than sending grants to the City. I think.
My impression is that they just didn’t move on the projects, as a way of keeping spending off the books. I don’t believe there was ever an explicit public decision not to proceed, or even to delay; they just didn’t keep moving on the projects as one would have expected.