“Mr. Lastman,” I said, still stupefied by the appearance of such spectacle in Scarborough, “When I worked at Canada’s Wonderland, I had a terrible time getting up there. Why not build subways above ground alongside the highway until it arrives at York University and then continue alongside the highway, up until it arrives at Canada’s Wonderland. Huge market of opportunity there, sir.” He nodded and I walked away, while the media looked on, taking photographs and filming the scene.
The next day, the media featured this idea and eventually residents in Vaughn lauded this idea.
Zap to 2011. Word on the street a lot of young people in their teens and 20’s are buying electric bikes. Why? It requires no car license fiasco, or insurance, all one has to do is walk into a store, buy it, and leave.

Yes, this is happening in California. But why would I choose to
build fuel cell stations instead of subways? Let’s say the Canadian
government passed this law tomorrow and it was retroactive. They would
find out how much money they would collect in the next week and
implement this plan into motion for the end of the year, or early next
spring. If this initiative proves to be successful, every major city in
Canada would have a supply of Hydrogen Fuel-cell Stations.
What would this do to the automotive industry in Canada? In 2008,
the meltdown killed the automotive industry in Canada. Too many people
lost their homes in Windsor and in Oshawa and these highly skilled
workers went from a $35.00 hour job to a ten dollar job in retail. This
plan would stimulate the automotive industry to build fuel cell
vehicles, restoring growth and prosperity to a region of the province
that was decimated in 2008. No country in the world has yet done this.
We can be first. I wonder if this story has legs.
Paul Collins, author of Mack Dunstan’s Inferno
Contact him on http://www.facebook.com/#!/authorpaulcollins
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