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Originally Posted by Aroundtheworld
I am very happy that we don't have the same dysfunctional culture that exists in Ontario. The problem is that politics is way too involved in everything transit related. I've looked at some of the renderings of the Ontario Line and it looks overbuilt. There doesn't seem to be any incentive to try and keep costs down. On the surface, it seems like they may be doing something right by hiring Italian companies and doing P3s but the devil is always in the details. I doubt they're doing itemized contracts, for instance.
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Indeed. And I'm happy that (so far) our problems with building new transit infrastructure have mostly been minor. Edmonton's new
Valley Line LRT is the latest example of what can go wrong. They're having to structurally upgrade 30 of the 45 piers on the elevated section because of cracking (before the system has even started up). Quite the engineering design failure, and now three years behind schedule.
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