King-Victoria Transit Hub

[danbrotherston]

They cancelled the bypass.  I don’t believe for a second they will succeed in convincing CN to give up their freight business on the corridor, and I don’t believe that the corridor can support reliable AD2W Go and freight, but Metrolinx is welcome to prove me wrong.

Thanks, this gave me more to read, and I think I understand the situation better now. However, blaming it on the PCs seems incorrect unless I have the timeline wrong here. It seems like Metrolinx initially pursued the freight bypass, which the Liberals approved. Further planning for it showed the costs were higher than initially thought, so they began to consider alternatives. And from what I could tell, it seemed like Metrolinx was the ones to recommend sharing the Halton subdivision as a better option, not the PCs overruling them.

Although the dates I'm seeing on these articles and documents are all over the place, so I'm a bit confused since I wasn't following this in real-time.

Lets just say, I strongly doubt Metrolinx's claim to being a politically independent and business case driven organization.

They have a long track record of building politically motivated projects, rather than business case driven ones, even up to right now, where things like the scarborough subway whose business case is not justified, even though they went with an obviously misleading business case assessment [1].

So at the end of the day, I don't trust them one bit when they say stuff like this, I fully feel they are just a puppet for whatever the governing party wants to do.

While I do think the freight bypass would have been expensive (frankly, unjustifiably so, in my mind, but I also don't see why a small single line transit station should cost 140 million dollars either), but I do think that the demand for transit in this corridor is so high, that it's probably justified.

Of course, it would be more justified if we hadn't just invested many many billions in locking in a future of more lanes and more congestion on the 401.

[1] https://stevemunro.ca/2020/02/29/a-preli...extension/