Oh, man. I was present for a bar-room conversation about 15 years ago where a Xinhua reporter went off on Canadian infrastructure timelines citing this project specifically. "In China, it would just be built."
🧵1/4 BREAKING: The Province has announced that negotiations with the contractor for the new Massey crossing have collapsed and the project is being sent back out to tender.
This is a significant setback for one of BC’s most important transportation projects, and raises serious questions about the escalating costs for this project, and how this situation was allowed to develop in the first place.