Taxpayers deserve not to be patronized when projects like Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT line stretch out over deadline and over budget
Last week, the head of the public transport agency in charge of a repeatedly delayed transit project in Toronto stood in front of a microphone and refused to say when the new light-rail system would at long last go into service.
This, for a project announced in 2009 with a scheduled completion date in 2020. Now almost four years late and $3-billion over budget, the person in charge is blowing off the taxpaying public. He’ll avoid missing a future deadline by simply refusing to set one. Have a nice day. The Trans Mountain pipeline extension is one such case. Ever since the federal government rescued the project in 2018 by purchasing it for $4.5-billion, the construction costs have exploded. The original cost estimate was $7.4-billion. The latest estimate is $30.9-billion.difficult terrain mixed with crowded urban areas
And yet no one has been called on the carpet. It’s unclear whether there is even a carpet to be called on to.
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