Brutkey

Ev Delen
@evdelen@mstdn.ca

John Lorinc really could have gone much further in this article:

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/we-should-all-be-demanding-to-find-out-whats-driving-doug-fords-tunnel-dreams/article_9bdb6511-b252-45d2-96f4-28dfd0eb4a8e.html

1. No engineer in their right mind would recommend a tunnel beneath the 401. This is obviously coming from MBA wielding C-Suite morons in "leadership" roles in the companies that, unsolicited, came up with this plan, and who are merely after gouging the taxpayer.

2. Missed opportunity to remind everyone that the 2025 Provincial election was not scheduled but a politically motivated snap-election in the interests of grabbing power while people were distracted by Trump.

3. "Peculiar psychology" assumes that this is a bug, not a feature of the plans. Projects like this are about transferring public money to private hands!

Remember, #DougFord &most #Conservatives only do things that profit them personally!

Just like how Ford indemnified private care facilities devastated by COVID because they had fmr Con Premier Mike Harris on the board, Aecon also has Con's on the Board: Rod Phillips.

#ONPoli #Corruption

Three excerpted paragraphs from the linked to article. They read: 1. "The question is whether Ontarians were asking for an impossibly expensive solution to gridlock, or whether this a case of the engineering tail wagging the taxpaying dog." 2. "But in the run-up to the provincial general election earlier this year, Ford felt a need to brand himself as the anti-gridlock candidate, which he has tried with the Big Doug idea and his plan to tear out Toronto’s bike lanes (the subject last week of a scathing court ruling)." 3. "Flyvbjerg also point to the peculiar psychology of such politically freighted plans, which is that they tend to blind governments to cheaper and more easily executed alternatives. Such as, in the case of the 401: deploying outstanding east-west GO Bus service on dedicated lanes, which would cost a fraction of the Big Doug and provide some gridlock relief within our lifetimes."