Vanessa Kurpiewska, above, was stabbed to death on the Toronto subway just before Christmas for no apparent reason; the perpetrator injured another woman as well.
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Public transit construction, maintenance, and operation in Canada, like in so many countries, typically involves massive public expenditures, graft, incompetence, and cost overruns for any number of dubious reasons. And once the system is up and running there are equipment breakdowns and retroactive inquiries into procurement corruption, not to mention criminal activity as thugs target a captive commuter population. Sometimes it does work, but at other times, it fails spectacularly. When it does function, it is maintained by men and women with some sort of real, technical expertise. (more…)
