Re:Google’s Founders Wanted to Shape a City – Toronto Is The...
by alexasmyths on Thursday October 19, 2017 @07:59PM
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This is it.
Some systems are so backwards they will never be fixed, they will be disrupted. But don't discount the power of unions.
You could have, in Google Village Toronto - literally the coolest and most advanced transit system in the world - and the TTC Change Collectors could still be there.
It takes a mayor or Premier who is basically willing to burn a ton of political capital to take them on - and it never happens.
Current Premier Wynne is bribing the unions for votes.
It's a problem with populism - and one of the ugly/secret reasons that public transit is not expanded in more places: bureaucracy, complexity, unions, cabals, systems-in-place.
I don't like Google, but yes, let's hope they can disrupt public transit.
Some systems are so backwards they will never be fixed, they will be disrupted. But don't discount the power of unions.
You could have, in Google Village Toronto - literally the coolest and most advanced transit system in the world - and the TTC Change Collectors could still be there.
It takes a mayor or Premier who is basically willing to burn a ton of political capital to take them on - and it never happens.
Current Premier Wynne is bribing the unions for votes.
It's a problem with populism - and one of the ugly/secret reasons that public transit is not expanded in more places: bureaucracy, complexity, unions, cabals, systems-in-place.
I don't like Google, but yes, let's hope they can disrupt public transit.