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Originally Posted by MalcolmTucker
The principle of subsidiarity applies to every area where response to local conditions is important. Look to the sw ring road as one example - massive overbuilding because what is built isn't aligned with regional planning.
All of the problems with the green line have come from the political level. The federal government announcing funding before anything close to a back of the napkin analysis was done. The city iterating back up to the political level continuously instead of defining objectives concretely then going to planning. The province getting 99% there and then not signing a final agreement before the election, then the province rolling back since then. Council members shadow boxing about the project to raise their profiles. Grandees coming in with barely defrosted ideas that just FUD all over the project. Activists coming in with what they think is helping (north leg first!) when really it is just FUD from another direction.
It is really frustrating, because the project is a good project! But you need to have really followed the bouncing ball as the option funnel narrowed to conclude that these days given the amount of mis and dis information out there.
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Is it a good project? I'm still begrudgingly of the opinion that it is better we build it than don't, but for $5B it doesn't give us very much of value. It essentially does nothing for the north, even if the 16 Ave station is built, and it doesn't serve the SE either. The majority of the area served is low density or industrial wasteland.
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