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Originally Posted by kermitology
The west LRT is something that was promised to residents in west Calgary for 20 years before it started construction. The communities in that part of the city haven't seen the explosive growth of the SE, so naturally it now seems like the SE should get the LRT.
I'm personally of the opinion that the growth and infrastructure dollars going to the SE needs to stop. It's grown too much, too fast, and this is the price you pay for ultra cheap housing. Of course half the freaking city population is living in that quadrant of the city now, choking north south corridors, but can't possibly pay for their own infrastructure, ever.
City council has always approved the expansion to the deep south with the idea that the communities will become self sufficient with the expanded tax base, but the level of subsidy they've given developers has made it impossible to recover costs, and the rest of the city is going to pay for it.
A better solution would probably be to create an urban satellite somewhere around that bow bottom deerfoot split. It just goes nuts with development south and east of there.
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Agreed . You wanted you $2.99 Big Mac special of a house in the deep SE? Pay for the services.