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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Not this crap again. Sprawl is bad, but wherever I live isn't sprawl and thus deserves all the services. Unless you live on Stephen Ave, every part of the city was a parasite at some point.
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I think the argument revolves more around the fact that the homes serviced by the west LRT are our City's largest property and provincial tax paying base (as this is a mixture of a municipally and provincially funded project). Therefore, on some level, those folks get the LRT first based on the fact that they have the tax base to have 'paid' for the LRT, whereas the same cannot necessarily be said of the proposed SE LRT, as you have a much lower average property and provincial tax base, coupled to a much more expensive LRT project. It's just not fiscally sound.
However you can always counter that with a 'one-pot' approach.