crs1026
Superstar
@TransitBart's to-do list is great, but items 1-5 were equally true at the time of the last election but Wynne got reelected anyways. A crappy Liberal party is assumed by all. I see absolutely no signs of the current PC party embracing a centrist, balanced, Davis style platform. They are likely smart enough to be graceful as opposed to angry, but they will emphasise tightfistedness and departure from the Wynne agenda.
I take some comfort that the GTA media has been climbing the learning curve with respect to transit matters. One doesn't have to agree with everything written but I give the media passing grades for learning to look past the crap and demandsome rigour and fact to support proposals. John Tory has been especially helpful in giving them pause in this respect.
The trouble with politicians seizing on a government entity as being "fat, bloated, unresponsive" is that they pick dramatic and not necessarily constructive paths to impose corrective action. Metrolinx is a prime target for the PC's to harp on - because they are fat, bloated, and unresponsive - but any wholescale restructuring will only happen at the risk of taking one's eye off the ball. What ML needs is transparency and someone to tame their inner redundancy and silo building. The work the TTC has been doing with KPMG around project management is an example of an organization coming to grips with its inner beast in a positive way. My fear is that ML becomes the next Ornge - too easy a target for the PC's to leave alone - so ML endures a period of public whipping and projects get stalled until new "controls" are in place.
Anyways, to return to topic - I agree, Crosstown extensions are something that Wynne has said the City must pay for....and I don't see the PC's changing that reality.
- Paul
I take some comfort that the GTA media has been climbing the learning curve with respect to transit matters. One doesn't have to agree with everything written but I give the media passing grades for learning to look past the crap and demandsome rigour and fact to support proposals. John Tory has been especially helpful in giving them pause in this respect.
The trouble with politicians seizing on a government entity as being "fat, bloated, unresponsive" is that they pick dramatic and not necessarily constructive paths to impose corrective action. Metrolinx is a prime target for the PC's to harp on - because they are fat, bloated, and unresponsive - but any wholescale restructuring will only happen at the risk of taking one's eye off the ball. What ML needs is transparency and someone to tame their inner redundancy and silo building. The work the TTC has been doing with KPMG around project management is an example of an organization coming to grips with its inner beast in a positive way. My fear is that ML becomes the next Ornge - too easy a target for the PC's to leave alone - so ML endures a period of public whipping and projects get stalled until new "controls" are in place.
Anyways, to return to topic - I agree, Crosstown extensions are something that Wynne has said the City must pay for....and I don't see the PC's changing that reality.
- Paul