1overcosc
Active Member
Except this guy's goal is to help travel between Kingston and Toronto... and to draw Torontonian tourists to Kingston. Both things that VIA currently does decently well.
This guy, Rick Downes, is a perennial loser in Kingston politics. He's a councillor but is always trying to move up, he's run for mayor, MP, and MPP before and failed. His base is the low-income neighbourhoods of Kingston's north end. He's extraordinarily popular among those people, but the rest of the city sees him as a bit of a loony. He has very little understanding of Kingston beyond that home group, too. I wouldn't be surprised if he honestly thought that commuter service to Toronto would appeal to suburban Kingstonians for whatever reason.
This guy, Rick Downes, is a perennial loser in Kingston politics. He's a councillor but is always trying to move up, he's run for mayor, MP, and MPP before and failed. His base is the low-income neighbourhoods of Kingston's north end. He's extraordinarily popular among those people, but the rest of the city sees him as a bit of a loony. He has very little understanding of Kingston beyond that home group, too. I wouldn't be surprised if he honestly thought that commuter service to Toronto would appeal to suburban Kingstonians for whatever reason.