What An Embarassment

Toronto's Eglinton LRT (Light Rail Transit) project started in 2011 and was originally planned to be finished in 2016.

Fast forward 12 years and there is no deadline for the project to be finished. This week the consortium building the LRT just pushed the deadline back - again - to sometime in 2024. 

Let's not even talk about budget overruns.....

So following on from the title in today's newspaper article, what are some projects that were built in less time than the Eglinton LRT?

• CN Tower 3 years 
• Landing a man on the moon 8 years 
• The atom bomb 6 years
• The Rideau Canal 5 years!
• Canadian Pacific railway 4 years! 
• Adrian's Wall 6 years 
• The Roman Colosseum 8 years 
• Panama Canal 10 years
• The London subway 3 years 
• Hoover Dam 5 years 
• The Chunnel 6 years 
• Boston's Big Dig 14 years 
• Eglinton LRT 12 years - and counting!

Of course safety standards and environmental assessments didn't exist when a lot of these were built, but come on now.....