Post #1146606

2026-04-02 05:44 UTC

RE: https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@reece/116330035845231456 The policy lurch inherent to our broken electoral system is terrible for rail mega projects. Look at the UK, US and Canada. It makes incrementalism the best and in some cases only strategy. The Liberals should have written a passenger rail master plan in 2015 and spent the last decade acquiring and upgrading corridors to get passenger trains running faster and on time.

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@mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca 2026-04-09 01:02

@paige Seems like the Liberals had plenty of time to get something built if it had been a priority. One can worry about policy lurch when governing parties change, but we'll probably have had at least 14 years of Liberals in power before another party takes over.

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@heliomass@cosocial.ca 2026-04-09 01:13

@paige Flashbacks to Rishi Sunak suddenly cancelling the latter stages of HS2 because a by-election in Hillingdon & Uxbridge was won on a backlash to Sadiq Kahn’s ULEZ scheme. More than a decade of careful cross-party collaboration and planning thrown away for nothing other than an “anti-woke” culture war gesture. You’re right, these projects can go up in smoke in seconds even if there’s shovels in the ground and broad consensus.

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