BananaB

I would agree that writing a brand new story (with a new title, could be similar) is more effective than revising an old one.

It would help the drinking (horse drirnking water that is) if the person at the top gave a tight deadline for each check point, say a monthly report with concrete actions taken by the person responsible for the task. A letter with general descriptions of responsibilities is simply not good enough. One concrete action (show us the picture) is better than a thousand words.

Frankly, there are more dynamic people (doers) in the group of people (some 5 ministers) who could be given the job to lead the RoF light brigade and skillfully lead it to successful conclusion (i.e. not a frontal attack and get mauled like the other Light Brigade).

We could try this, as an instruction from the Premier to the lead person responsible for the RoF development.

Check point 1: Present a plan for the RR/road infrastructure, with detailed cost estimates and allocations from the Ont Gov $1B fund, by 15 Novemeber 2014. Note: Also outline dicussions with the Federal counterpart for Fed contribution. Regardless of Fed funding construction plan should go ahead using Ont Gov funding.

Just a suggestion from a simple-minded person. It should only take a week at most to put together a comprehensive plan. This plan does not have to be perfect. It's an initial step to get the snow ball rolling down to the RoF at ~140m ASL.

A diversion: For snow ball to go down hill, Nakina (~340m ASL), or somewhere up north with the similar elevation like Sudbury would be a better place than Toronto (Queen's Park @ ~110 m ASL).

So, the train would need to climb up ~200m (0.2km) to haul the ores out of the RoF over a stretch of ~300km. The average grade would be much less than 1 degree, actually = 0.2/300 = 0.00067 radian = 0.037 degree, if my math is correct. At any rate, the RR/service road route would be practically (of course there would be local variation).

This is an interesting fact to keep in mind for looking at the big picture of the transportation infrastructure. It confirms that the RoF is a swamp and Nakina is up on a hill.

goldhunter