This is genuinely interesting—I hadn't heard about ALTO until reading this piece. You did an excellent job analyzing the issue, though if Toronto's Eglinton LRT has taught me anything, it's that we might be waiting another 20 years before any of this materializes. That said, this was a great analysis and I thoroughly enjoyed reading your piece.
Great news, and, I think it’s long overdue to have such high speed connection. Author’s conclusions make perfect sense. I hope this project will come to fruition soon!
This is a fascinating, Simon! Great investigative work and additional points for using language analysis techniques 😉. I wonder if there’s any way to analyze sentiment by geographic location (i.e. «imput from Kingston residents generally is negative/positive»).
Thanks Diana. It’s a good idea. I tried to get pin locations too, but it looks like it’s only possible to do with an API access, which is not exposed to public.
Interested in whether you might consider re-running analysis now that there is more input, particularly given the significant push back from communities affected by the route corridors
I'm not as optimistic as you about ridership and finances. See this question on ourcommons.cahttps://www.ourcommons.ca/written-questions/45-1/q-923?response=14033580
And by "transformative, nation‑shaping rail project Canada has waited decades for" you mean "an multi-generational financial albatross that makes the Montreal Olympics seem like a laughable rounding error". This is another virtue-signaling vanity project, just like Ottawa's LRT.
That is certainly a possibility. However, I think we can learn from our past mistakes and succeed this time. Plus if PPP is going to be used, we know it works thanks to two successful examples - Montreal REM and Vancouver Canada Line, where taxpayers didn’t have to break a bank, and big infrastructure projects were delivered pretty much on time and largely on budget (the latter). So I’m optimistic.
This is genuinely interesting—I hadn't heard about ALTO until reading this piece. You did an excellent job analyzing the issue, though if Toronto's Eglinton LRT has taught me anything, it's that we might be waiting another 20 years before any of this materializes. That said, this was a great analysis and I thoroughly enjoyed reading your piece.
Thank you 🙏 We are all hopeful it will happen this time.
Great news, and, I think it’s long overdue to have such high speed connection. Author’s conclusions make perfect sense. I hope this project will come to fruition soon!
I hope so too
This is a fascinating, Simon! Great investigative work and additional points for using language analysis techniques 😉. I wonder if there’s any way to analyze sentiment by geographic location (i.e. «imput from Kingston residents generally is negative/positive»).
Thanks Diana. It’s a good idea. I tried to get pin locations too, but it looks like it’s only possible to do with an API access, which is not exposed to public.
Interested in whether you might consider re-running analysis now that there is more input, particularly given the significant push back from communities affected by the route corridors
I'm not as optimistic as you about ridership and finances. See this question on ourcommons.cahttps://www.ourcommons.ca/written-questions/45-1/q-923?response=14033580
I'm wondering if now that the public consultation period is almost over, you might run another analysis. This was so interesting.
These folks have an analysis starts on p 85 https://savesouthfrontenac.ca/
And by "transformative, nation‑shaping rail project Canada has waited decades for" you mean "an multi-generational financial albatross that makes the Montreal Olympics seem like a laughable rounding error". This is another virtue-signaling vanity project, just like Ottawa's LRT.
That is certainly a possibility. However, I think we can learn from our past mistakes and succeed this time. Plus if PPP is going to be used, we know it works thanks to two successful examples - Montreal REM and Vancouver Canada Line, where taxpayers didn’t have to break a bank, and big infrastructure projects were delivered pretty much on time and largely on budget (the latter). So I’m optimistic.