Labour will be cheap. China, India, and Brazil will have left us in the dust.
Actually, there's an idea! Import foreign laborers and let them work for a lower wage than minimum wage (assuming they're not canadian citizens means they don't apply; I doubt it, but you could probably pass it at minimum wage) which would still be better than at home (at least India and China,) and then give them a leg up on Canadian citizenship when they're done work! Probably would never happen, but it would be awesome!
kEiThZ said:
If they had a coherent plan to build more subways, this could all be accomplished quite smoothly. It's the LRT tunnel here, subway tunnel there business that creates haphazard scheduling leading to such long project timeframes. Sheppard should be slotted in the same time as the Yonge extension I would think. Then deploy all that labour on Eglinton and the DRL after that.
Pretty much hits the nail on the head. Transit City should really be getting all these projects started, ready for extension later.
They could build their Eglinton Subway from Jane to Don Mills, already making plans for westward and eastward extensions. Once you're finished, start working on the western section, then work on the eastern part to Kennedy, then to Kingston Road.
With Yonge, they could extend to Steeles (to alleviate some pressure off Finch) and then start working on the extension to Langstaff. Heck, if Langstaff comes in after 2020, there might be enough density to go to Major Mac or something! Probably not, but it's always a possibility.
With the DRL, they could do Pape-Union, then after that do Pape-Eglinton and Union-Dundas West. Depending on the route they take, they could even split it up to Union-Exhibition-Dundas West. Different sections being different projects means you don't need the entire workforce employed the whole time, which can save a bunch of money. It also means you get the line opened a lot quicker than if you decided to go Eglinton-Dundas West all in one go.
I have to admit, for Spadina, they should just be going to York U and leave VCC for later. While I reject the notion that VCC will remain a couple big box stores for the next 20 years, it certainly won't get far enough in 6 years.