Is it another benefit of a national strategy that once there's an agreement among the provinces, the municipalities, and the federal government on a system by which public transit will be implemented--maybe not agreement on the funding, but at least on what will be implemented--it takes away the tendency to make transit infrastructure decisions for political purposes?
I think back to the early nineties, when we had a big hole on Eglinton Avenue in Toronto that somebody decided to fill in at a cost of $100 million. Now we're digging the hole again.
So we have what was clearly, to the public anyway, a very political decision to stop a transit project and start a different one that was in a riding more friendly to the government at that time. It baffles people to understand how that happens. But would a national strategy at least curb some of that, or at least make it less likely to be so obvious?