robmausser
Senior Member
Maybe the cancellation of electrification so that the money can be redirected to fund the subway's third rail.
Cancelling 200km of electrification for 20km of subway at the same cost.
Maybe the cancellation of electrification so that the money can be redirected to fund the subway's third rail.
FTFYCancelling 200km of electrification for 2km of subway at the same cost.
So what is the announcement?
Based on Ford's spite, also known as 'the plan for the people (that voted PC)', Hamilton's LRT is on the chopping block since Hamilton voted NDP.Any guesses as to which projects are affected?
Plus the Cons now mandating an appointee of the Transport Min on the Board, and all decisions approved by the Min and/or Cabinet.My personal prediction: after promising greater transparency, the PCs’ version of those ML reports will be even more obtuse. We may well miss the “good old days” when ML showed more cards.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-pc-fall-economic-outlook-cuts-tax-lcbo-1.4906718Bill 57 also expands the jurisdiction of Metrolinx, the Toronto-area's transportation agency, to include a host of new regions. Further, it eliminates the existing requirement that development plans from Metrolinx must consider all forms of transportation.
The legislation would ultimately give the minister of transportation more control of Metrolinx's governance, and would also allow the minister to appoint a representative to the organization's board of directors.
RE: board meeting. I wouldn't be surprised if it's either cancelled, or if it's full of pure-vanilla, non-news, "we are so great" agenda items.I couldn’t find anything in the released material that would provide enough data to substantiate the NDP claims. The PC projection in the statement was simply for FY 2018-2019. Delays in procurement probably have caused the PC 2018-2019 projections to fall below Wynne’s last budget, even without anything actually being formally cut. Shovels are not going in the ground as fast as the Wynne plans forecast eg the lack of a deal with CN pushes all the Kitchener spending out into future years.
The NDP is likely not crying wolf however - more likely they know it’s a claim that the PCs can’t deny, even though the published data doesn’t speak to anything. They may have a better ear to the wall, too. It’s a good bluff that puts the Minister on the spot.... and he is playing their game by clearly ducking the question,
The event to watch is the upcoming ML Board meeting. If the Capital Report disappears, or is massaged, we know there are new numbers somewhere. Even the verbal reports will be telling.
My personal prediction: after promising greater transparency, the PCs’ version of those ML reports will be even more obtuse. We may well miss the “good old days” when ML showed more cards.
- Paul
Presumably stuff they were planning on spending this year, is going to be delayed. This is often innocuous, and related to capacity to spend issues. If you go through TTC forecast versus actual spending, you'll see exactly the same thing, year after year, as projects are delayed.Just wanted to post something related to transit funding from the Fall Economic Statement. $1.4 billion seems to be missing from the budget projections. Below are the numbers:
Hang on - how can this be related to Hurontario? They weren't planning on spending that much in this fiscal year!Additionally, here is the NDP release on the subject:
Ford’s $1.4 Billion in cuts to transit infrastructure put Hurontario LRT among other promised projects in peril
Ontario's Minister of Transport is making a speech in the morning. See here
Wonder if he will have anything substantive to say. Hopefully, at least there will be a scrum.