Hogtown City Limits

The federal government has announced it will pay $35 million to the Toronto Port Authority not to build a previously-approved $22 million bridge to the island airport.
Toronto's "large imperfect" Mayor, David Miller, is "very pleased" with the result.
Writing in the Globe and Mail columnist John Barber said "How could this be? How could it cost more not to build something than it was going to cost to build it?" Answers it seems are hard to come by as silence is the preferred mode of those in the know. The porkfest goes on.
Meanwhile the ferry service across Lake Ontario between Toronto and Rochester, New York is due to be revived shortly. The service ran briefly for some eighty days last summer before regulatory problems sank it. I recall the Mayor was there at the launch of the ferry trying to shrug off the risible lack of preparation at the Toronto port. A half constructed portakabin with flapping plastic sheeting greeted our American guests. A third world country would have been ashamed. Let's hope the new ferry owners, the City of Rochester, have better luck this time around. Only in Hogtown.