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Originally Posted by JustAnotherGuy;2768025[B
]Since you are the person who is disputing what Nenshi said can you find what he actually said?[/B] I think it is important to be clear on what he said as part of his campaign.
The herald is reporting..
http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/...819/story.html
Mayor Naheed Nenshi's shift away from making the southeast LRT a priority stands to upset colleagues and enrage a quadrant that has long felt ignored by civic leaders.
Council will debate a report Monday that urges the construction of a few mass-transit busways instead of the southeast train line.
In light of that, Nenshi has stopped citing the LRT extension as one of his key priorities, which include the airport tunnel, balancing the budget and council reforms.
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I'm arguing that he
didn't say something, and I can not outright prove a negative. The onus is on the person who is saying that he "campaigned" on the SE LRT to prove that he did. I take "campaigned" to mean that he promised to build it in a rough timeframe, not merely vaguely "supporting" it. Almost everyone, in a vague sense, supports the SE LRT, but not everyone prioritizes it.
For what it's worth though, here's Nenshi's Better Idea on transit.
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http://www.nenshi.ca/new/2010/141
PDF:
http://www.nenshi.ca/new/wp-content/...-for-Mayor.pdf
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Of course, this is all beside the fact that the story posted by the thread creator, the one we've been discussing, doesn't mean that any decision has been made one way or the other on the SE LRT. It's just an administration report. Furthermore, all that has happened is that a funding source, that probably could not have been used for the SE LRT project anyway, has been recommended to be used elsewhere. It's not a de-prioritization of the SE LRT project.