Calgary Public Transit Discussion Thread

[flipstah]

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https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-p...neck-1.6438923



Fake news. She was stabbed somewhere else and made her way to the train station, probably because it was safe.

So Gondek's plan is working

[4WARNED]

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canad...3f3353b2&ei=29

more....

[suntan]

Dirty NE so nothing out of the ordinary.

[Tik-Tok]

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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canad...3f3353b2&ei=29

more....

Isn't that the same one Kenny posted? Or is it more hatchet wielding methheads?

We need a hatchet registry. Restricted weapon. Can only transport with handle removed and locked in a case.

[msommers]

Province putting a hard cap on funding of the Green Line.

Take your bets on the overbudget amount upon completion - betting starts at 1 Billion...

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...green-line-lrt

[killramos]

That’s the province’s not so subtle nudge not to do it.

[pheoxs]

Interesting to say they won’t fund anymore than allocated while also simultaneously requiring it to tie into the newly announced provincial train plan. Cant really see how that’s all going to pan out.

[max_boost]

my people are good at building the tracks
should get them to do it to save money and time

[ExtraSlow]

This could by extension (tee hee) also save me from the north part of the green line project. I like that.

What's the fastest the south part of the green line could be operational? 5 years? Or more?

[max_boost]

north part is the worst idea
gonna destroy center street

[pheoxs]

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This could by extension (tee hee) also save me from the north part of the green line project. I like that.

What's the fastest the south part of the green line could be operational? 5 years? Or more?

5-6 years is the current estimate for the green line to shepard.

[ExtraSlow]

Nice. In under ten years I'll be gone from my current house, so I like my odds or avoiding the north construction.

[Cagare]

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Province putting a hard cap on funding of the Green Line.

Take your bets on the overbudget amount upon completion - betting starts at 1 Billion...

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...green-line-lrt

They are currently working on the design to the budget right now. Supposed to be done next month. They are already not going north of the river at all in this phase. I think I know how that design is going....

This is the Province signalling early that there's no additional cash for this because they know how it's going too. I think politically they will force the feds to come in here and pony up to save Chahal's seat next year.

[schurchill39]

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my people are good at building the tracks
should get them to do it to save money and time

This guy railroads!

[88CRX]

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Province putting a hard cap on funding of the Green Line.

Take your bets on the overbudget amount upon completion - betting starts at 1 Billion...

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...green-line-lrt

Whats the total cost?

I'd bet that it will cost no less then 50% more then they're estimating.... and if it doesn't, they've cooked the books to make it look like it came in under budget.

[sexualbanana]

You remember back in the day when Naheed Nenshi, as the Calgary mayor, did not want to give Calgarians their $52-million a year tax break from the province, money then-premier Alison Redford said should go back to Calgarians.

Instead Nenshi cooked up a scheme and with Shane Keating, a southeast Calgary councillor, got city council to take that provincial $52 million tax break for 10 years and then extend it to 30 years of tax breaks and put it toward the Green Line.

So the $52-million tax break multiplied by 30 years is the Calgary taxpayer’s contribution of more than $1.5 billion for the Green Line LRT.

This part makes me wonder how much of this is just politicking. Granted, it's just Rick Bell pandering to the Conservatives, but I imagine he wouldn't be mentioning it if some kind of background was provided.

I don't understand what the criticism of Nenshi is, or, as Premier Smith called it, "an epic failure of leadership", in funding the City's portion of the project:
- Is she upset that, instead of taking the $52-million tax break the last Conservative government gave them and giving back to Calgarians, that they used it to fund a public infrastructure program?
- I'm not sure how then-Mayor Nenshi and then-Councilperson Keating can "scheme" a way to extend a 10-year tax break given to them by the Province into a 30-year tax break given to them by the Province.
- Is the provincial government upset that Mayor Nenshi funded the project without having to make budget cuts to other city departments?

I'm not the keenest observer of municipal politics, so there are probably some perspectives and information I'm not aware of. But, from my viewpoint, all I can really see is that Premier Smith considers Nenshi to be not only a favourite to lead the NDP, but also to be a major threat to her incumbency as Premier, so she's taking every chance she can to discredit him - whether there is merit to it or not. To me, it seems to track with other UCP efforts to use a dog whistle to their support base - expecting their base to have as strong a dislike for Nenshi as they do for Trudeau.

[bjstare]

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This part makes me wonder how much of this is just politicking. Granted, it's just Rick Bell pandering to the Conservatives, but I imagine he wouldn't be mentioning it if some kind of background was provided.

I don't understand what the criticism of Nenshi is, or, as Premier Smith called it, "an epic failure of leadership", in funding the City's portion of the project:
- Is she upset that, instead of taking the $52-million tax break the last Conservative government gave them and giving back to Calgarians, that they used it to fund a public infrastructure program?
- I'm not sure how then-Mayor Nenshi and then-Councilperson Keating can "scheme" a way to extend a 10-year tax break given to them by the Province into a 30-year tax break given to them by the Province.
- Is the provincial government upset that Mayor Nenshi funded the project without having to make budget cuts to other city departments?

I'm not the keenest observer of municipal politics, so there are probably some perspectives and information I'm not aware of. But, from my viewpoint, all I can really see is that Premier Smith considers Nenshi to be not only a favourite to lead the NDP, but also to be a major threat to her incumbency as Premier, so she's taking every chance she can to discredit him - whether there is merit to it or not. To me, it seems to track with other UCP efforts to use a dog whistle to their support base - expecting their base to have as strong a dislike for Nenshi as they do for Trudeau.

Governments of all levels have proven history of majorly bungling large projects and having them run way the fuck over budget and/or schedule. Smith is saying "if you run over budget, tough titties, you'll have to figure it out on your own". There's a lot of politicking that goes on all the time, but for once, this is actually a reasonable flavor of it, IMO.

Also, no shit the UCP base is going to dislike Nenshi as much as Trudeau. That's a perfectly reasonable expectation.

[89coupe]

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...green-line-lrt

[killramos]

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Governments of all levels have proven history of majorly bungling large projects and having them run way the fuck over budget and/or schedule. Smith is saying "if you run over budget, tough titties, you'll have to figure it out on your own". There's a lot of politicking that goes on all the time, but for once, this is actually a reasonable flavor of it, IMO.

Also, no shit the UCP base is going to dislike Nenshi as much as Trudeau. That's a perfectly reasonable expectation.

I personally blame the consultants.

[04Terminator]

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https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...green-line-lrt

Those dummies called it "green". They should have just called it the "oil line" and the dumb fuck conservatives of the province would have tripled it's funding.

You Just need to know how to manipulate those knuckle dragging idiots.