DRTP Truck Expressway Or...
Oh that the Mayor of ours is such a kidder. He's got such a funny sense of humour.
If you watched the video of the scrum of the Mayor on the Windsor Star website, you will see the Mayor making a comment that DRTP has been talking with a number of Councillors about their new proposal.
Surprisingly, but not really, the Mayor chose not to tell us what the conversations were about. Do you think that was deliberate to scare people along the DRTP corridor to send in right away their approval notice of Greenlink? Do you think that the Mayor is desperate to get up his approval numbers?
He could, of course, have said that it had nothing to do with the truck expressway but that it had everything to do with a doublestack rail tunnel that it appears DRTP has been pushing. But that would be too simple. And in Windsor, nothing is ever simple or what it appears to be on its face.
I noticed some lobbying statistics for DRTP in the US for 2006. It is of course not clear to me whether these costs are for the truck tunnel or for the rail tunnel project or both. It is just strange to me that they have two different accounts but that could just be an anomaly depending on how the Lobbyist firm set up the account.
If you watched the video of the scrum of the Mayor on the Windsor Star website, you will see the Mayor making a comment that DRTP has been talking with a number of Councillors about their new proposal.
Surprisingly, but not really, the Mayor chose not to tell us what the conversations were about. Do you think that was deliberate to scare people along the DRTP corridor to send in right away their approval notice of Greenlink? Do you think that the Mayor is desperate to get up his approval numbers?
He could, of course, have said that it had nothing to do with the truck expressway but that it had everything to do with a doublestack rail tunnel that it appears DRTP has been pushing. But that would be too simple. And in Windsor, nothing is ever simple or what it appears to be on its face.
I noticed some lobbying statistics for DRTP in the US for 2006. It is of course not clear to me whether these costs are for the truck tunnel or for the rail tunnel project or both. It is just strange to me that they have two different accounts but that could just be an anomaly depending on how the Lobbyist firm set up the account.
I'm sure however that we will hear from Mike Hurst very, very soon. After all, they would not be spending lobbying money for nothing now would they.
It will probably turn into something involving the Zalev lands as well since that subject and Brownfields have been in the news and at Council recently. If you hear something about rail rationalization soon, then it's a slam-dunk.
posted by JoeBlog at 6:41 a.m.
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