6 billion for a partial line with missing stops... this is theft, not a boondoggle. This council has no idea of ROI! Corruption is absolute in calgary.
It's always the same across Canada. The political landscape changes and new politicians are allowed to dicker around with huge capital infrastructure projects. No WONDER nothing ever gets built on time or on budget!
It's called money laundering. Usually our politicians aren't so obvious about it, but now the police and judicial system are in on it too so there's nothing we can do about it.
NONSENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our govts- at ALL LEVELS are infested with LIE-berals and NDPees and Woke Radicals and their policies and values are POLITICAL POISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One need only look at the NUMBER OF DECADES that Silly City Hall fools have spent DISCUSSING the need for more public transit - without actually DOING ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIE-beral govts are PARALYZED by their own greed and poisonous incompetence!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIE-berals BELIEVE that the best use of OUR TAX MONEY is to BUY VOTES FOR LIE-berals by hiding govt inefficiencies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the problem with “democracy “ is any sizeable meaningful project takes time and forward planning . And we kick them out before it gets completed and some one else causes it to fail or cancels it
@@Kraken4201 you make no sense at all. If your theory was correct then how and why did Calgary THRIVE so many other times in the past? Especially with Ralph Klein. The only problem here and now is corruption.
@@Kraken4201 That is ABSOLUTE DRIVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The fiscal and construction record of Metrolinx PROVES that the MAJOR PROBLEM is Woke Radicals and LIE-berals who have been put in places of authority by LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With those LIE-berals being major obstructions to common sense and logic!!!!!!!!!! The Socialist denizens of Toronto SILLY HALL have spent DECADES discussing the NEED to bring more subway train service to the city..................... nothing but ENDLESS TALK FOR DECADES......... and then Ontario provincial LIE-berals created Metrolinx to be the EXPERT - GO TO GUYS for getting public transit built............... and Metrolinx has a NEARLY TWO DECADE RECORD of MASSIVE cost over runs and quality control issues!!!!!!!!!!! The CURRENT MASSIVE PROBLEM that Metrolinx is struggling to deal with is the INCREDIBLE FAILURE of pretty much every element of the Eglinton LRT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The LIST OF FAULTS BEGINS with tracks so poorly laid that the LRT cars CANNOT be operated on those rails without threat of DERAILMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are a host of other issues as well that Metrolinx DELIBERATELY AVOIDS DISCUSSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ontario premier Ford is probably WISE to have washed his hands of the METROLINX DISASTER that was supposed to be nearly created when Ford was first elected as premier- and that was SEVEN YEARS AGO - and we still have NO HARD COMPLETION DATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ford govt seems to be taking the attitude that they might as well let Metrolinx complete the Eglinton LRT so that the general public will get the FULL PICTURE of just how badly the ALLEGED PUBLIC TRANSIT EXPERTS HAVE FOULED UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Calgary's own bean counters told the city NOT to build it. Then Mr NDP pushed it through anyways. REMEMBER the LRT to the AIRPORT is still not done and who did that one? Let me think ... MR NDP himself
Don't forget that ever project for a city or educational institute always goes over budget, that has become the norm. The biggest BS is a 2.1B winddown, why can't that be used to go as far as possible, so that its not just a waste.
You can scroll through YT and find many videos about stalls, price overruns about this project going back 7-8 years. There are many people from provincial and municipal governments with the plan of HOPE. Hope is not a plan or a strategy. Gondek (who has been on the Green Line board before becoming mayor) is now being held to account for bringing this line in on budget. What a crazy idea!
What a boondoggle. Just a money pit. Just scrap it all together. The city won’t even have money to maintain it at this rate. Can’t even maintain their water lines.
I'm sure Gondek finds competent engineering and design practices difficult to understand. From a simpler aspect, in the entire city, only one quadrant is not serviced by an LRT line. The SE. So Gondek and her minions in council decide that the wise choice is to cut the scope by over 2/3, and add a third LRT line to the North... while completing erasing SE service from the picture. This mayor and council do not possess the business and managerial sense to understand and deliver on a major project. Its like the Keystone Cops come to civic politics.
But those people don’t want to be there.. They want to be more central! Why don’t we convert the industrial areas and move the industrialists farther.. 🤷♂️
Our former Mayor, Naheed Nenshi, another East Indian, laundered millions of dollars too with fake overpriced "City Art" , but he wasn't as obvious about it as the current mayor of Calgary is.
Cool story. Is every job going to pay everyone enough to afford a car and is the province going to develop enough roads to accommodate all the drivers? The idea of just packing more drivers into a city is pretty shortsighted. Believe it or not public transportation in major cities is far more efficient for everyone and helps the economy function.
You can scroll through YT and find many videos about stalls, price overruns about this project going back 7-8 years. There are many people from provincial and municipal governments with the plan of HOPE. Hope is not a plan or a strategy. Gondek (who has been on the Green Line board before becoming mayor) is now being held to account for bringing this line in on budget. What a crazy idea!
6 billion for a partial line with missing stops... this is theft, not a boondoggle.
This council has no idea of ROI!
Corruption is absolute in calgary.
And also in the UCP
How did the city spent nearly the whole budget and only has a hole in the ground
I stand with Danielle Smith and the UCP and not Calgary City Council.
Gondeck, learn to make things work within the budget. You spend like a drunken sailor
This council can achieve anything with unlimited resources and zero scrutiny . They are real winners
If the City transit was smart. They would have the LRT go to the airport. ❤❤
That has always been a 'want', but they need green line North for it to happen.
It's always the same across Canada. The political landscape changes and new politicians are allowed to dicker around with huge capital infrastructure projects. No WONDER nothing ever gets built on time or on budget!
It's called money laundering. Usually our politicians aren't so obvious about it, but now the police and judicial system are in on it too so there's nothing we can do about it.
NONSENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our govts- at ALL LEVELS are infested with LIE-berals and NDPees and Woke Radicals and their policies and values are POLITICAL POISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One need only look at the NUMBER OF DECADES that Silly City Hall fools have spent DISCUSSING the need for more public transit - without actually DOING ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-beral govts are PARALYZED by their own greed and poisonous incompetence!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals BELIEVE that the best use of OUR TAX MONEY is to BUY VOTES FOR LIE-berals by hiding govt inefficiencies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the problem with “democracy “ is any sizeable meaningful project takes time and forward planning . And we kick them out before it gets completed and some one else causes it to fail or cancels it
@@Kraken4201 you make no sense at all. If your theory was correct then how and why did Calgary THRIVE so many other times in the past? Especially with Ralph Klein. The only problem here and now is corruption.
@@Kraken4201 That is ABSOLUTE DRIVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The fiscal and construction record of Metrolinx PROVES that the MAJOR PROBLEM is Woke Radicals and LIE-berals who have been put in places of authority by LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With those LIE-berals being major obstructions to common sense and logic!!!!!!!!!!
The Socialist denizens of Toronto SILLY HALL have spent DECADES discussing the NEED to bring more subway train service to the city.....................
nothing but ENDLESS TALK FOR DECADES.........
and then Ontario provincial LIE-berals created Metrolinx to be the EXPERT - GO TO GUYS for getting public transit built...............
and Metrolinx has a NEARLY TWO DECADE RECORD of MASSIVE cost over runs and quality control issues!!!!!!!!!!!
The CURRENT MASSIVE PROBLEM that Metrolinx is struggling to deal with is the INCREDIBLE FAILURE of pretty much every element of the Eglinton LRT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The LIST OF FAULTS BEGINS with tracks so poorly laid that the LRT cars CANNOT be operated on those rails without threat of DERAILMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are a host of other issues as well that Metrolinx DELIBERATELY AVOIDS DISCUSSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ontario premier Ford is probably WISE to have washed his hands of the METROLINX DISASTER that was supposed to be nearly created when Ford was first elected as premier- and that was SEVEN YEARS AGO - and we still have NO HARD COMPLETION DATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ford govt seems to be taking the attitude that they might as well let Metrolinx complete the Eglinton LRT so that the general public will get the FULL PICTURE of just how badly the ALLEGED PUBLIC TRANSIT EXPERTS HAVE FOULED UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Calgary's own bean counters told the city NOT to build it. Then Mr NDP pushed it through anyways. REMEMBER the LRT to the AIRPORT is still not done and who did that one? Let me think ... MR NDP himself
Don't forget that ever project for a city or educational institute always goes over budget, that has become the norm. The biggest BS is a 2.1B winddown, why can't that be used to go as far as possible, so that its not just a waste.
maybe deal with the drug problem that covers the red and blue first. cant even take the train with out getting bugged for money or getting robbed
100% agreed
You can scroll through YT and find many videos about stalls, price overruns about this project going back 7-8 years. There are many people from provincial and municipal governments with the plan of HOPE. Hope is not a plan or a strategy. Gondek (who has been on the Green Line board before becoming mayor) is now being held to account for bringing this line in on budget. What a crazy idea!
The budget didn't provide enough for DEI. Spend twice as much next time, and we'll stratagize the money away to "those that need it most"
I guess a PhD in sociology doesn't help when using the calculator.
So it was months and years of planning but we missed the budget by how much?
turns out calgary was right and smith is back in. Smith doesnt seem to really know whats shes doing these days.
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What a boondoggle. Just a money pit. Just scrap it all together. The city won’t even have money to maintain it at this rate. Can’t even maintain their water lines.
I'm sure Gondek finds competent engineering and design practices difficult to understand. From a simpler aspect, in the entire city, only one quadrant is not serviced by an LRT line. The SE. So Gondek and her minions in council decide that the wise choice is to cut the scope by over 2/3, and add a third LRT line to the North... while completing erasing SE service from the picture. This mayor and council do not possess the business and managerial sense to understand and deliver on a major project. Its like the Keystone Cops come to civic politics.
Total waste of money
Davis David Garcia Sharon Thompson Barbara
Jones Larry Brown Angela Miller Robert
Hernandez Linda Garcia Michelle Thomas Charles
Clark Thomas Rodriguez Donna Wilson Christopher
Taylor Thomas Taylor Jose Martin Joseph
But those people don’t want to be there..
They want to be more central!
Why don’t we convert the industrial areas and move the industrialists farther.. 🤷♂️
Johnson Christopher Davis Joseph Martin Deborah
Moore William Williams Cynthia Robinson Jeffrey
They need it 🙏
Hahaaa😂 clownyor
Our former Mayor, Naheed Nenshi, another East Indian, laundered millions of dollars too with fake overpriced "City Art" , but he wasn't as obvious about it as the current mayor of Calgary is.
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Buy a car and forget about public transportation.
Cool story. Is every job going to pay everyone enough to afford a car and is the province going to develop enough roads to accommodate all the drivers?
The idea of just packing more drivers into a city is pretty shortsighted.
Believe it or not public transportation in major cities is far more efficient for everyone and helps the economy function.
There are lots of jobs, no one is standing waiting to be hired for that project, they are at work on real jobs. 😅
It's our money you spending spining your tires for nothing. Calgary city council is a joke.
You can scroll through YT and find many videos about stalls, price overruns about this project going back 7-8 years. There are many people from provincial and municipal governments with the plan of HOPE. Hope is not a plan or a strategy. Gondek (who has been on the Green Line board before becoming mayor) is now being held to account for bringing this line in on budget. What a crazy idea!