{"id":111717,"date":"2022-04-10T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=111717"},"modified":"2022-04-11T09:11:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T13:11:03","slug":"promises-promises-promises-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/promises-promises-promises-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Promises, promises, promises | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Submitted by Lucille Frith, co-chair, Northeastern Ontario Rail Network (NEORN)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four years ago, soon-to-be-Premier Ford and Minister Vic Fedeli promised to return passenger rail service to Northeastern Ontario before the end of their mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, here we are\u2014the election is June 2\u2014and no passenger train! Not even a purchase order for one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is a provincial budget looming&#8230;and Sunday\u2019s announcement of $75 million to bring passenger rail service back to Northeastern Ontario will restore a key transportation option for residents, businesses, and visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Corina Moore, president and CEO of Ontario Northland Transportation Commission and her team, working with Metrolinx, have successfully processed the business plan for the return of passenger rail service through a variety of milestones over the past few years. The stage is now set for the spring budget\u2014with the promise of $75 million in the upcoming budget, will a purchase order now be issued for the rolling stock?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this government\u2019s major investment will not keep the original promise of the return of passenger rail service by the end of their current term, it will enable our government to provide passenger rail service as suggested by Minister Mulroney by mid-2020s. Reality is it takes up to four years to build a train set\u2014engine, passenger cars\u2014rolling stock. It\u2019s not like acquiring materials (gravel and asphalt) to build a bridge or road. We have the (rail) road and now we need the vehicles to carry passengers from Toronto to Northern Ontario on the railroad. The highway for trains. This Ministry of Transportation is not just the Ministry of Roads and<br>Highways but of <em>transportation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Premier Ford promised! Minister Fedeli promised!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If all goes well, Minister Mulroney will have funds in the spring budget to acquire the equipment needed to provide passenger train service to Northeastern Ontario. Otherwise, the \u201cmid 2020s\u201d delivery promise won\u2019t be kept. <em>And<\/em> the promise of 2018 will not be kept!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voters believe in election promises\u2014or should they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday\u2019s announcement is promising!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Lucille Frith, co-chair, Northeastern Ontario Rail Network (NEORN) Four years ago, soon-to-be-Premier Ford and Minister Vic Fedeli promised to return passenger rail service to Northeastern Ontario before the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":111725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-letters"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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