This government has neither the foresight nor patience to engage in a project that will almost certainly extend beyond their terms in office. If there is an inter-municipality passenger rail announcement the most reasonable conclusion is that a grift is happening that will rob us of many years and treasures that could have actually gone towards this project, but will come to nothing. In 10 years we will have lost millions, there will not be a plan in place, but they will have talked it up so much that it actually has to happen, at which point we will spend 2 twice as much on a commuter rail that goes from the Petro on Hwy1 to Deadmans Flats, rather than Calgary to Banff or a rail that will go from Airdrie to Leduc, just to ensure that it is not useful to 98% of the population.
This is the faith I have in the Smith government, but it's probably fair to call me cynical when it comes to them.
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