Millennium Line - Broadway Extension: Planning & Pre-Construction

[trofirhen]

Originally Posted by ssiguy

Whatever route/stations they eventually agree upon, Translink and the City better gets it's ass in gear and make some concrete decisions. The forthcoming infrastructure funding from Trudeau will b e for shovel ready projects and not ones that can start construction 3 or 4 years from now.

Infrastructure spending is dolled out by provincially and not on a city to city basis so in other words, if the routes/stations, and environmental reviews are done quickly, Christy will use those funds for her pet highway projects.

Please, so I can better understand this:
1: Are federal infrastructure $$$ for, ok, the broadway line, or such as examples, repeat: are the feds funds given directly to the provincial government with the funded project stipulated,
or does the Provincial government have the discretion to alter the spending of such money? If the latter is so, Clark is very much in a position of power broker.

2: What are some of Clark's 'pet highway projects'? / Thanks

[Migrant_Coconut]

Originally Posted by trofirhen

2: What are some of Clark's 'pet highway projects'? / Thanks

Maybe not her directly, but Victoria is ignoring any requests for transit funding, yet looking at spending Morgan-Freeman-knows how many billions on a Bridge to Nowhere the Sunshine Coast.

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut

Maybe not her directly, but Victoria is ignoring any requests for transit funding, yet looking at spending Morgan-Freeman-knows how many billions on a Bridge to Nowhere the Sunshine Coast.

Oh, it's all her. You can see every time Puppet Todd Stone goes off message he gets his hand slapped.

[officedweller]

Originally Posted by Spork

I completely agree. VGH stretches from Oak to Cambie - no reason to have the station in the middle of that section.

Depends if they want to divert east-west travelling VGH employees away from Broadway City-Hall Station since that station, as a transfer station, will be crowded.

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by officedweller

Depends if they want to divert east-west travelling VGH employees away from Broadway City-Hall Station since that station, as a transfer station, will be crowded.

A station in the Oak-Laurel area makes the most sense. Anything closer to Cambie is too close IMO.

Cambie to Willow, for example, would be about the same as Broadway-City Hall to Olympic Village today, just a bit too short.

[Large Cat]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

A station in the Oak-Laurel area makes the most sense. Anything closer to Cambie is too close IMO.

Cambie to Willow, for example, would be about the same as Broadway-City Hall to Olympic Village today, just a bit too short.

Agree. Best would be to have one or two entrances at Oak and Broadway, and another one from the other side of the platform at Laurel, a la Waterfront Station.

[TourOdeon]

So Trudeau hasnt done anything since getting elected?

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by TourOdeon

So Trudeau hasnt done anything since getting elected?

On this regional issue? No.

[retro_orange]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

On this regional issue? No.

I believe they are still working on releasing the funds to the provinces and deciding who gets what. from what I have read in the news lately anyway.

[squeezied]

I can't wait to vote Christy out.

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by retro_orange

I believe they are still working on releasing the funds to the provinces and deciding who gets what. from what I have read in the news lately anyway.

They haven't announced specific projects, but the federal government has always committed to 1/3 capital funding of something like the Broadway Line.

Knowing the way governments work, the Feds will re-announce this as $1B in transit funding for Vancouver. Hooray!! But really it means nothing new and the province still has a knife to the neck of Translink.

[retro_orange]

Originally Posted by squeezied

I can't wait to vote Christy out.

yay NDP or Greens!

[Large Cat]

Originally Posted by squeezied

I can't wait to vote Christy out.

Disgustingly massive agree.

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by retro_orange

yay NDP or Greens!

Yay let's destroy the economy!

[twoNeurons]

Originally Posted by Jebby

Yay let's destroy the economy!

hyperbole, much? All governments are supposed to do that. Didn't you get the memo?

[LeftCoaster]

But only one government has proven themselves to be simply masterful at it...

[WarrenC12]

Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

But only one government has proven themselves to be simply masterful at it...

I'm not going to defend the NDP of the 90s. But statements like this seem to lock us in to BC Liberal rule forever.

[SFUVancouver]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

I'm not going to defend the NDP of the 90s. But statements like this seem to lock us in to BC Liberal rule forever.

Agreed. There must be a statute of limitations on it. Incidentally, in the same vein I don't see how anyone could ever trust the Federal Conservatives to run the country after they ran the show during the Great Depression, the 1980s Recession, and the 2000s Great Recession.

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by SFUVancouver

Agreed. There must be a statute of limitations on it. Incidentally, in the same vein I don't see how anyone could ever trust the Federal Conservatives to run the country after they ran the show during the Great Depression, the 1980s Recession, and the 2000s Great Recession.

Look at the party in power in the years preceding every great recession:

Great Depression:
1921-1930 Liberals

Late 70s/Early 80s Recession:
1963-1979 Liberals

2000s Great Recession:
1993-2006 Liberals

It seems like every time the federal Liberals are in power for an extended period of time the economy crashes.

[Jebby]

Originally Posted by WarrenC12

I'm not going to defend the NDP of the 90s. But statements like this seem to lock us in to BC Liberal rule forever.

If the alternatives are the NDP or Greens or other leftist parties, that's not such a bad thing.