Recent content by asher__jo

Politics functions in 5 year election cycles. Of course actual budget planning is far more long term, but the public doesn’t see or understand that. Not something I’m a fan of, but when you live next to America certain trends tend to prevail.

The financing of a P3 is far too compelling, offloading a ton of debt to the private sector. Yes that does drive up costs of projects, but it allows you to find more or larger projects because of that fiscal room gained with cost sharing of p3.

Let’s keep the hating to the relevant forums. No one was screaming bloody murder when they made they built the Canada line in Vancouver. As much as I hate it, P3 are here to stay.

You’re, no nimbys to blame at all

From what I’ve seen in the ARTM report 31 km of the 38 km line is at surface. It appears grade separation is limited to Metro interchanges and rail or Autoroute crossings. Yeah, as does the rest of the world. Trams aren’t some dirty word that needs to thrown around on here because of outdated...

Exactly. Fraud exists everywhere, but what doesn’t exist media encouraged to criticize the government and accountability through fair elections.

And I think Air Canada being involved helps the chances of this proceeding. They’re being smart knowing this will harm their short haul flights, but theoretically could recapture revenue from rail through the partnership Cadence.

It’s not ideal that tracks used my multiple parties is now in private hands. That being said, 2 tracks for REM plus the previous exo lines and then VIA is not doable. REM will be running very high frequency, so another tunnel under Mont Royal will be inevitable in the long term .

The ridership is definitely there, but I’d say it’s politically untenable to build until there is more transportation options to the North shore. It’s a chicken and egg problem where North and West Vancouver aren’t very dense so they don’t justify that investment, but would densify if completed.

This whole China does it better is bordering on racism with ridiculous claims made. China is generally a non-capitalist country and can justify spending huge amounts of government money without fearing that the stock market will react negatively. China also has no real rule of law, so any labour...

Sad NDP’s transit funding plan that’s the norm in virtually every other province hasn’t gotten more attention.

Permanent shade is an odd drawback to reference. We are able to build high rises and able to mitigate shadows, and the same can definitely be done with other elevated structures.

I’ve worked in construction for several years in many industries. Blame foremen and upper management for poor job planning, but also remember wages for labour jobs aren’t that great when you factor in mandatory overtime, working in all weather conditions and generally working in a hazardous...

Thank you for pointing out that Calgary is an incredibly sprawled city.

There’s always controversy when projects go over budget (and COVID was a unique scenario). Of course there are flaws with grade separation and train technology that will show their problems later, but this is still a hugely important project and once’s it’s been running reliably people will get...