Tuscani01
Senior Member
If you can't see that Smart Track has come and sucked out all the momentum out of the DRL, then I don't know what to say. A year ago who was talking about the DRL? When was the last time anybody talked about the DRL at city hall? When last did John Tory talk about the DRL? Where is all the set station locations for Smart Track? Where are all the studies done for it? We have gone from no one talking about Smart Track last year to it being funded within one year. They are still debating and studying on the feasibility of the Eglinton section but all of a sudden we have all this funding coming for it? What a joke. Nobody even knows what Smart Track is. Whether it is part of GO RER or what it is. But we all of a sudden have the Feds committing 2 billion for it. Smart Track has taken all of the spotlight from the DRL. They can plan all they want but no money is coming for it.
The DRL is in the planning stages. "People talking" about the DRL isn't going to push it forward anymore than it already is. There is a whole team behind the DRL project that is still working on it. There is NOTHING to fund at the moment besides planning, which already received funding and is proceeding. Clearly you're just not paying attention to the process that is going on right in front of your eyes.
As I already said, the funding for Smart Track is possible because very little of Smart Track is new. Its all on existing lines, using a plan that has been floating around for many years. Its not something new like the DRL, which was talked about in the past, but never had EA's, never had an alignment selected, never had stations identified etc.