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Originally Posted by frinkprof
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.
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I actually agree with everything that you're saying here. There is a great need for the tunnel. I guess my question is whether or not that need for the tunnel outweighs all of the other infrastructure projects for the next decade though?
I recognize fully that this what prioritization is all about and that not everything can be done at once. I also think that delays mean higher costs, but make no mistake there are costs to delaying the other infrastructure projects as well. Maybe they are not as calculable, or simply haven't been calculated and promoted in the media but they are just as real.