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Originally Posted by Slava
Fair enough, but doing one project in one corner of the city which means no other projects for a decade seems somewhat silly. I was slowly coming to the viewpoint that the airport tunnel was a good idea...but putting everything else on hold for a decade just makes me re-examine that thought.
Is it even true though? Is this either the airport tunnel or other projects?
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It is in a corner geographically speaking, but the regional implications have been expounded numerous times in this thread. Surely that doesn't need going-over again.
I wouldn't say it's true. It may mean a longer wait for some of the bigger projects, but I really don't think it means absolutely no transportation capital projects for a decade.
The need for the airport tunnel project is much more acute than any of the other big projects because of the temporal aspect involved. Any more delays means exponentially higher costs. The costs would grow such that doing the project would be crippling to the budget or prohibitive altogether leaving Calgarians on the hook to deal with the significant traffic and quality-of-life consequences.
Really it is the fault of past councils that this is all coming to light now when it could have been dealt with and managed much better than realizing the problem at the last minute and having to have a dialog about what has to be sacrificed to make the 11th hour solution a reality.