High Speed Train Coming?-split from boosting Canada’s military spending"

[ytz]

It also isn't a bottomless pit, the boomers are all gone in the next 10 to 15 years.
All thise old age homes will be converted to pickleball courts.....

Which means we get an even larger infrastructure bill of rotting buildings. Thanks I guess?

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Which means we get an even larger infrastructure bill of rotting buildings. Thanks I guess?

Probably make great train stations.....

 

[Halifax Tar]

Which means we get an even larger infrastructure bill of rotting buildings. Thanks I guess?

Just tear them down and make green spaces.

Give it back to nature.

 

[Altair]

So now that we are back in a reality where 90b over 15 years is a pittance compared to 80b a year on OAS can we all... Get back on track?

 

[ytz]

We all seem to agree that is bad debt.

Military debt is good debt.

Pipeline debt is good debt.

Rail debt is bad debt.

Meanwhile its all the same debt.

It's funny how generational inequality advocates (like Gen Squeeze) also support defence spending. They don't see contradictions in advocating for higher defence spending, infrastructure spending and deficit reduction.

The defence backlog is no different than the infrastructure backlog or the debt. These are all accumulated deficits and liabilities built up from under investment that benefited certain past cohorts. It sucks. But they all have to be fixed by today's young people.

 

[ytz]

Just tear them down and make green spaces.

Give it back to nature.

Even that's not free.

Reminds me of this little problem growing in the background.

The story of Alberta's $100-billion well liability problem. How did we get here? | The Narwhal

Landowners once promised a fair share for hosting oil and gas infrastructure on their properties say Alberta’s liability management system is broken. The regulator has long been propping up the industry by exaggerating profits and underestimating the costs to clean up — often leaving landowners...

thenarwhal.ca

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

It's funny how generational inequality advocates (like Gen Squeeze) also support defence spending. They don't see contradictions in advocating for higher defence spending, infrastructure spending and deficit reduction.

Or its possible we just don't want to build things for whomever takes us over....

 

[YZT580]

I wasn't aware that the Toronto to Quebec route was beside one of the most active seismic faults in the world, and also at the same time in one of the most expensive locations in the world.

Sarcasm ill becomes you. Please name a government project of any nature in the last several decades that has come in on time and at budget. How about that pipeline? From what 8 billion to 33 billion? We have been given a rough guess for a quote without any supporting figures. There is no revealed plan to lay tracks into any of the 4 major cities. At a guess they will have to tunnel which isn't cheap. 70 million dollars per km in fact and that would be for a single tunnel so double it per city plus the subterranean infrastructure for the stations themselves. Building parallel to highway 7 will be an engineering nightmare as there are miles of wetland and where there isn't wetland it is hard rock. Just ask your Scottish ancestors who tried to farm there. Land costs may be high in California but the expropriated costs here in Toronto are going to come close. And oh by the way, the entire Ottawa valley and the Saint Lawrence are on a fault line with numerous tremors recorded in the Quebec City area. They may not be magnitude 8 but they do have to be taken into consideration so there you go.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Sarcasm ill becomes you. Please name a government project of any nature in the last several decades that has come in on time and at budget. How about that pipeline? From what 8 billion to 33 billion? We have been given a rough guess for a quote without any supporting figures. There is no revealed plan to lay tracks into any of the 4 major cities. At a guess they will have to tunnel which isn't cheap. 70 million dollars per km in fact and that would be for a single tunnel so double it per city plus the subterranean infrastructure for the stations themselves. Building parallel to highway 7 will be an engineering nightmare as there are miles of wetland and where there isn't wetland it is hard rock. Just ask your Scottish ancestors who tried to farm there. Land costs may be high in California but the expropriated costs here in Toronto are going to come close. And oh by the way, the entire Ottawa valley and the Saint Lawrence are on a fault line with numerous tremors recorded in the Quebec City area. They may not be magnitude 8 but they do have to be taken into consideration so there you go.

NRU/MV Asterix.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

It's kind of funny that we've become so accustomed to Govt. projects being so over budget/over timeline, that we need to celebrate when they are not.

If I get a quote of $600 and one day from my mechanic, I don't dance in the parking lot when that turns out to be the case,.....now $400 and an hour later, well then I'm doing a little jig.

 

[ytz]

There is no revealed plan to lay tracks into any of the 4 major cities.

They published the Corridor areas and they all include access to the cities and proposed station areas. The only thing they haven't published is the exact track line. And they discussed their reasons for not doing that during the consultation. If they are months away from expropriation, they are much further along than they let on publicly.

Are you under the impression that this is being done without Alto talking to Metrolinx and RTM?

But also it's incredible to accuse them of not knowing anything and then just pulling your own plan out of thin air thinking it's actually credible.

These kind of discussions remind me of random Redditors who think they know more about fighter jets than actual serving RCAF.

 

[OldSolduer]

Don’t hire the contractor who redid the WPS HQ.

Massively over budget

 

[Halifax Tar]

Don’t hire the contractor who redid the WPS HQ.

Massively over budget

I hope Irving gets the contract. Upper Canada deserves to experience them.