LRT Stage 3: Not Dead, ‘Just Resting’

Published 09/23/2023 · Updated 09/23/2023

Oh our Ottawa city councillors. Ever the optimists.

It’s hard to know what our municipal elected officials are under the influence of, alcohol, dope, shrooms but most likely politics … the most dangerous hallucinogen on the planet.

It turns people into instant experts. Misguided souls who think the City of Ottawa could get Stage 3 LRT to Kanata, Stittsville and Barrhaven … right and even proceeding.

Let’s just say that taxpayers have been pounding their heads against a cinder-block wall for four years on light rail and now certain spending addicts (yet another political disease) on council believe taxpayers should pound their heads against a wall even more. You know why you pound your head against a cinder-block wall? Because it feels better when you stop.

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So stop. Get what we’ve kinda built working and get city finances in order. And then … maybe … perhaps … whatever … three truck-loads of valium later … we could start again. Or not.

So Stage 3 is not resting. It’s not stunned. It’s not pining for the fjords. It’s dead. It’s deceased. It’s an ex-train.

If ever there were an allegory for the light-rail project, it is the Monty Python dead parrot skit below.

Enjoy.

Ken Gray

Monty Python Dead Parrot