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    Avi Lewis sagt, dass das Hochgeschwindigkeitsbahnprojekt vollständig in öffentlichem Besitz sein sollte


    Avi Lewis sagt, dass das Hochgeschwindigkeitsbahnprojekt vollständig in öffentlichem Besitz sein sollte

    https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/avi-lewis-says-high-speed-rail-project-should-be-publicly-owned

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    1. MTL_Dude666 on

      The best high-speed train in the world: the Shinkansen in Japan is private.

      Imagine if an airline was fully publicly-owned…it wouldn’t survive long so why should a high-speed train be publicly-owned when its primary goal is to be efficient and NOT to change the goal post every time there is a new election?

      Besides, we already have a Crown corporation train company: Via Rail.

    2. kilawolf on

      While it’s good to have major infrastructure be publicly owned…I can see it result in issues with unions protesting where the management later becomes unsustainable and then the infrastructure funded completely by taxpayer funds is later sold off to private interests for cheap. Same result eventually…

    3. Amtoj on

      It is. Maybe not fully if you count the Quebec pension fund as a private entity no different from any other. Though that’s not very accurate.

      https://tc.canada.ca/en/rail-transportation/railway-lines/high-speed-rail-initiative-toronto-quebec-city#roles

      > The Government of Canada, through the Minister of Transport, is the owner of the High-Speed Rail Initiative, and is its primary investor and shareholder.

      How does Lewis plan to get this built otherwise? The reason we can be sure this won’t be cancelled is cause it’s a P3. Everyone has skin in the game and wants to see it done. We’re not just throwing money at a contractor.

      The claim that P3 projects don’t work is disingenuous when this initiative is hot off the heels of the REM in Montreal.

    4. GooeyPig on

      The European model of rail privatization is generally that the government retains ownership of the tracks/infrastructure and rents it out to private operators. We are, in typical Canadian fashion, doing that bass ackwards. I was quite sad to see this caveat when the project was announced. That being said, there’s no going back on it now. We’re stuck with the arrangement. Failure of this project would mean we’re collectively giving up on HSR for the foreseeable future.

      The criticisms they I clude are cracking me up…

      >The project is not without its critics, including on the left. Some NDP pundits have framed it as a class issue, noting that it stands to benefit an elite clientele of well-off riders who live in major urban centres while imposing costs on the more sparsely populated communities along its path.

      It wouldn’t be HSR if it stopped in every rural community. That’s what GO is for (in Ontario). They should take their complaints to the provincial government as HSR will, by definition, never serve them. Again, Europe does a much better job of organizing feeder trains to the high speed one.

      >“When it comes to the controversies around (Alto), the route has to be navigated carefully and the (affected) communities have an absolute right to be consulted thoroughly and heard,” said Lewis. “If necessary, compensation has to be part of the formula.”

      Nah man, pretty sure the government is planning on stealing their land with no compensation. It’s not like this has been commented on. He really broke new ground with this comment.

      >And, while he stressed that he still supports high-speed rail philosophically, he was notably hesitant to give a full-throated endorsement to a project that’s quickly become a political football.

      Infuriating. It’s *not* becoming a political football. Poilievre and his surrogates are trying their damndest to manufacture dissent but public support remains high nationwide.

      >Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre circulated an open letter in late March calling on the Liberals to cancel the Alto project, calling it a “boondoggle” that would require the expropriation of “thousands of acres” of private property across Ontario and Quebec.

      >The Bloc Québécois has also raised the issue of land expropriations in Quebec and has sought to make Alto’s high-speed rail project the ballot-box issue of Monday’s byelection in Terrebonne.

      >Former NDP strategist Jordan Leichnitz told National Post that more modest, targeted investments in public transportation could give policymakers more bang for their buck than the Alto megaproject.

      Reflexive BANANAism (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone) from the opposition has stifled all national projects for decades. Again, if this project fails, it’s proof that we truly can’t build anything anywhere and should throw in the towel.

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