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Originally Posted by Slava
Wow, that seems incredibly disappointing. I didn't realise that the price tag was getting to the $7bn figure though! I admit I haven't followed this all that closely, but weren't figures of $1.5-$2bn being bandied about just a couple years ago?
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I don't ever recall estimates like that - perhaps just for the SE leg, excluding downtown.
The high level estimate when the federal election was on was $4.6b, but more extensive tunneling downtown and other things have made the number jump.
It is disappointing, but still a very important project to get moving. The key will be to have really effective feeder (hopefully community to end of the line direct) buses. When I was growing up, the NW end of the line for the longest time was Brentwood (no where near the edge of the city) - about a 15 minute feeder bus from my community. Didn't feel like it was a big deal to do.