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Originally Posted by redforever
I do know however that the C Train is a 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 financing among the municipality, the province and the feds.
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I'm sorry, it's getting late and I can't reply to your whole post, but this is false. Again, I don't have the exact numbers from the late seventies all the way up until now, but the City and Province pay much more than the feds do for capital infrastructure, and operations is all City. A lot of the expansion in the early 2000s was debt financed by the City, the WestLRT is mostly Provincial grant, and most of the smaller extensions in the late 2000s was some combination of City/Province. The feds chipped in for a portion of 33 LRVs in 2005 and that's all I can remember them putting in.
EDIT: The feds also paid for part of the odds and ends package that includes SE BRT lots, smart cards, realtime arrival information, part of 7th Ave. refurbishment, 4 car platforms, etc.