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HOWITZER · 11-21-2013, 12:08 AM

I'm not quite familiar with Winnipeg and what they're up to but the City/Province has announced a $600 million dollar, 7 km busway line between downtown Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba.

CTV News Article

Even though the project is combined with a couple other projects, seems insane that a BRT project would cost 85 million per km to build. Especially compared to the LRT project in Kitchener-Waterloo where they're putting 19km of LRT and 17 km of aBRT in for 818 million (43 million/km if you just divide the entire capital cost by the LRT distance, 22 million/km for the entire length).

Strange.

11-21-2013, 12:08 AM	#1886
HOWITZER Scoring Winger Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: YYC-ish Exp:	Winnipeg Rapid Transit Expansion I'm not quite familiar with Winnipeg and what they're up to but the City/Province has announced a $600 million dollar, 7 km busway line between downtown Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. CTV News Article Even though the project is combined with a couple other projects, seems insane that a BRT project would cost 85 million per km to build. Especially compared to the LRT project in Kitchener-Waterloo where they're putting 19km of LRT and 17 km of aBRT in for 818 million (43 million/km if you just divide the entire capital cost by the LRT distance, 22 million/km for the entire length). Strange.