• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    Fuck this stupid fuck. We need high-speed rail across the entire country. It needs to start somewhere, and become the new normal.

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      I don’t know about the whole country, because there’s a lot of low-density space where it’s hard to justify this level of infrastructure cost.

      But the Quebec City-Windsor corridor absolutely needs high-speed rail because it includes roughly half of Canada’s population. It’s even conveniently arranged in a straight line! Driving in this region is hindered by tons of traffic, and flying has huge carbon costs. Rail should be the default way to get around in this region.

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    “This $90-billion Liberal boondoggle doesn’t make sense.”

    This isn’t even a boondoggle yet. I mean, of course it’s going to go way over budget and be late, and of course it will eventually be a boondoggle, but you can’t slap that label on it until it is!

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        The joy of using the lowest bidder. Takes longer, costs more, lower quality. Procurement needs to change. Lowest bid always costs more cause they cut corners to be lowest, then the city/province/feds need to pony up more and more in sunk cost bs. Lowest bid and highest bid need to be tossed, requirements to stay on budget/time need to be implemented and used as a metric in future projects. This company always goes over time/budget? They get pushed down the list, only accepted for lower level projects until they prove themselves. Project comes in on time/budget? They get a leg up on next project as they are reliable. Why does every effort of the gov’t to save money cost us more?

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    “doesn’t make sense” Talk to us at $2L gas l’il PP.

    Subsiding Alberta oil at $20B a year really makes no sense.

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    Meanwhile a $40B (min) pipeline that no private oil&gas company wants is a totally realistic and smart project to spend on. Keep talking PP, it’s working!

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    So its a liberal “land grab” because some land may be used to build desperately needed infrastructure, something that happens all the time for roadway construction and expansion, yet hes silent on conservative premier Doug Fords Airport BS that somehow isn’t a convervative land grab?

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    Complaining about how extremely expensive trains are, no objections at all to spending ten times that much on fighter jets, battleships, and attack submarines.

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    What I would like to see is include the ticket price, and then include how many years before the project is paid for. Obviously, also include the savings incurred by less maintenance on roads etc. because of the traffic moved to high speed rail.

    We can do this for bridges, why not for high speed rail?

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    Fuck you ill go fisty cuffies over this any day any minute any time. I want my high speed Choo Choo.

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    He should just shut up and fuck off somewhere. Nothing of value would be lost.

    I don’t live there but there’s no way this is not needed.

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    Little Poil here, promise to give money to a project in Quebec City that was deemed useless but no less than tree independents studies. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t understand what could be useful