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How Metrolinx’s plan to deliver European-style train service went off the rails
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RM Transit made a somewhat emotional video after reading this article, if anyone has followed that channel. IDK if it’s on YouTube, but it’s on Nebula.
This is definitely a sad one to read. I can’t say I’m incredibly privy to the matters there, so I’m saying these based on the article and Reese’s (from RM Transit) comments. Metrolinx brought in foreign transit companies, with decades of experience under their belt, to advise and help build our transit system, but execs and seniors are somehow just stuck with their own idea of what transit looks like and wouldn’t budge on it. It’s such a disgraceful episode of working with people from other countries. Regardless if the people at Deutsche Bahn were actually insensitive to local sensitivities and have their own working style, you’ve signed that contract, so at least show that you’re willing to take in that advice and argue constructively. And heck, where is the public input on this?
He wrote a blog on it: Toronto: A Huge Setback for the Greatest Transit Project in Canadian History, and How to Save It