There was a dispute resolution process written into the contract that Metrolinx was trying to escape. The judge simply said that the two parties should go through that process. In the end, much of this is due to the vagueness of Metrolinx's mandate. They are to oversee regional transit and apparently have the authority to enter into contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars; but they are also, in many instances, reliant on the city tax base; so not surprisingly, the city can decide not to build the lines Metrolinx contracts to supply with trains. The provincial government that drafted and passed the legislation that made that possible certainly wasn't bright. The goal, I assume, was to piggy back on municipal budgets while still calling the shots. Forbidding tolls on the Gardiner, a road the city has to finance, is another instance. But failing to make jurisdiction clear can have bad results.