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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
It should be mentioned that even if the green trip money was used for the SELRT, the nature of the funding would mean that shovels wouldn't go into the ground probably until 2015, at least, likely 2017 or so.
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Are you saying that seeing as it's going to take 5-7 years from the time we get funding to the time we get construction started, that there is no need to get anything started soon?
To me it's the opposite- seeing as it will take some time we should get the ball rolling as soon as possible. Especially when right now we have a company that is looking to bid it for hundreds of millions less than what it would normally cost.
Besides, if the "halfassed" line is already either running or under construction; it makes it easier to address the expansion later on. Part of the problem now is nobody wants to spend the $3-4 billion it's going to get the LRT system to the way we want it. And that is understandable; that's a huge chunk of cash.
It's not like spending the $600M now will be money sent down the drain; it will just be part of the system completed.