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I thought the main problem with the project getting shelved by the previous council is that they had allocated roughly 1/3 of the total cost with the assumption that the federal and provincial governments would each contribute their 1/3 of the total cost.

Then, when they put forward their requests for funding to the other branches of government, they didn't put the underpass as a priority, then were surprised when the other branches didn't put up the funding.

Since then, it's been a scramble to try to scrape together the money. Then, Hawksworth saw it as a potenial rallying point of his campaign because he was the only one who was running who was opposed to the "Half Billion Dollar Tunnel", and that's what made it such a big issue.