Is there any other explanation for this blatantly corrupt waste of public funds? Surely someone is set to benefit from this, and it certainly isn't the pubic
Right, but the London-style barriers would help against that too, unlike the flexi-posts.
Moreover, as a pedestrian or person riding a bike, it is easy to get the impression that quite a few drivers in Toronto are "actively out to kill people"
I've never heard that, and there is no mention of that on Metrolinx's site.:
https://www.metrolinx.com/en/projects-and-programs/barrie-line-go-expansion/what-were-building
St Clair station is not on this line. Caledonia and Bloor/Lansdowne are.
I don't understand why the Caledonia GO station wasn't built at the same time as the Caledonia crosstown station (nor Bloor & Lansdowne as part of the guideway)
Wrong thread -- this is not the same project. Look here:
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/dundas-west-bloor-mobility-hub-interconnected-hub-network-metrolinx.16392/
and here:
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/cycling-west-toronto-railpath-city-of-toronto-phase-ii-proposed.2969/
This is a new council, and a new financial context. It seems entirely appropriate to reconsider an item that is by far the most expensive undertaking that the city has planned.