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Originally Posted by moncton golden flames
thanks ynat.
so relatively speaking, there is no additional cost of building the tunnel over upgrading country hills, which would be required if there is no tunnel. so we build the tunnel, it becomes a 3rd way to get top the airport and we get a row for a future lrt at no extra cost over a beefed up chb. if this is accurate, why the hell are people against it?
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Because everyone is afraid it will take funding away from other project which are personally more important to them.
Because there were no hard estimates on the actual costs of all the options.
Because it looked like a "nice to have" as opposed to a critical piece of redundancy.
Because certain municiple politicians campaigned against it to increase political capital.
Because anything that costs money and can be cut to reduce taxes should be cut when there are already property tax increases and budget cuts.
Lots of reasons.
I'm in favour of the tunnel, but I do wonder if there wasn't a mayor in favour of it, if a mayor opposed had been in power, would the estimates would have come in different? But perhaps I'm jaded.