Commentary
Last week, a major Toronto infrastructure project celebrated a sad milestone. Nov. 4 marked the 14th anniversary since the beginning of the construction of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.
The long-delayed and over-budget project has become a symbol of how impossible it seems to both get public projects done in Canada and also the general lack of accountability such projects face.
The Crosstown project isn’t particularly complicated. It’s a 19 kilometre train line with 25 stops that is both above and below ground at different parts of the line.
These sorts of lines are regularly being constructed all over the world. And, by and large, they’re built much more efficiently in those other jurisdictions….