03-04-2016, 09:00 AM
(03-04-2016, 05:22 AM)plam Wrote: Does that ever really work? Economies of scale I mean.
You can find a lot of people much more knowledgeable than I am (this is an understatement) who have written a lot about that question, using various case studies from Ontario and elsewhere. I think it must work in some cases, but far fewer than some people believe. In Ontario, I think it hasn’t worked in a lot of the forced mergers that were implemented when the idea was in fashion. I think it has in Toronto, though, and that citizens of Etobicoke and Scarborough are paying less for better services than they would have had the mega city not been formed.