Showing posts with label transit city. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transit city. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Another Ardent Free Enterpriser Seeks A 'Left-Wing' Solution

In what can be seen as either an act of hubris (Do as I say or I will unleash Ford Nation during the fall election) or an act of desperation (Oops, why did the private sector fail me?), Mayor Rob Ford made a visit to Dalton McGuinty yesterday, seeking a bailout of $650 million to pursue his dream of the contentious Sheppard subway extension.

Playing a game of semantics, Ford insists he isn't asking for any new money, conveniently forgetting that the previously promised funding was for the Transit City light-rail plan, something that Mr. Ford scrapped shortly after taking office.

It has been said that politics makes strange bedfellows. It is to be hoped that, vis a vis Rob Ford, Dalton McGuinty's imagination recoils at the recumbent imagery such an alliance would suggest.



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