Not Yours to Give

[SwissMercenary]

*gasps* You live on St. Clair Avenue? Or are you just another of the hapless car-users who wasn't consulted over this 'project'? :P

No, and I won't be directly affected by it, seeing as how I take the 97 bus. However, what I fail to see is the sense of it. Take up two lanes so that you can send a trolley down it every once in a while. You know. A trolley. One of those things that travels roughly as fast as cars do. What's the point of riding them again, if a car can get you where you want to go faster?

Possibly because their plan seems to consist of making transit faster then traffic, by slowing traffic down to a crawl. That'll surely reduce those greenhouse gas emissions!

The inanity of this boggles my mind. I mean, it's not like there's somebody awarding his buddies the contracts to do it, seeing as how if we'd say, instead of the trolley system, built a new branch of the SkyTrain, the exact same companies would be in on it. Hell, the bill would probably come out to be more. But at least after spending over a billion dollars, we'd have something that has a purpose other then make a hell of a lot of noise, and look pretty.

Oh, right, of course. How could I forget. That's exactly the purpose of the Evergreen Line. A fancy tourist attraction, and a cash cow for the coffee shops along it's route. Why everyone, including local municipal councillors, who seem, no, wait, who are reasonable people (And they aren't the type to spend money unless absolutely necessary), are fawning over it is beyond me.