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We need high speed rail yesterday.
We need any rail yesterday.
Best I can do is a new highway and buck a beer
-Ontario
And a tunnel under the 401 that will cost the equivalent of the entire countries GDP.
Our city would not exist as it does today if not for a historic tax agreement with the rail lines.
In brief, our city gave the rail lines a 100-year tax amnesty. That amnesty lapsed about 20 years ago, but what did our city do? They renewed the tax agreement.
So we have rail lines all over our city, which costs us literally billions per year so that we can build and maintain infrastructure over top and underneath these fucking rail lines.
Meanwhile, we build a completely new bus rapid transit system adjacent to many of these lines, which costs manyfold billions more than... if we had "kicked out" the rail companies & repurposed the existing lines for public transit.
When Greyhound pulled out of the Canadian market, I was shocked the government didn't step in to create their own equivalent.
Progressive politicians are losing rural and small-town voters because they don't have their issues front and centre. How the hell is a small town supposed to survive when people without access to a personal vehicle can't get there? These towns need workers, and having a means for people to go from town to town for work with relative ease without a car helps big time.
Bike highways and a tax incentive for ebike kits