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Originally Posted by Addick
So we should continue to play catch up with X and Y so Z can be completed proactively?
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Unless you got several boatloads of money that we can use now to fund every significant project the city wants, it would be wise too. Especially when the costs to the city itself isn't that much compared to the project as a whole, that is being done by the province. If we're not doing one thing, then we'll be doing the other. The LRT is needed, but so is the SWRR since all legs but this one has been completed, complete out TUC corridor, would relive pressure off the current roads used by SW commutes, save the costs of doing in the future when it's even more necessary, and possibly more costly, as well we have only several years to get the road done before the deal is off.
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Would those negotiations have taken place so soon if the SWRR was treated with less urgency?
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It shouldn't have taken since the 1960s when negotiation started till now to get the deal approved, but we can't change history. We can only work to make the best decisions now. And right now, the city can pay $133M to pay connections to a road that is going to be greatly used, or find someway to pay $5B to build an LRT line that doesn't even have an approved plan yet.