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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Interesting...though isn't this option D listed vastly under-estimated (hence why we're where we are now)? It just seems hard to trust any numbers associated with this whole thing.
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Agreed. It's probable that every option is close to or over $2B now. But even for those initial numbers, there really weren't any "cheap" options to get into downtown. A couples years later, we could learn that even this new alignment is too expensive.
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I'm still on the side of dedicated BRT for SE leg, and do full N leg properly as soon as possible
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I'm in full agreement here. But the City still clings to the hope that somehow they'll build the entire line even as it continues to be pared down. The Mayor still talks about the Green Line as project that will change the lives of 500K people, when Phase 1 will only be walking distance of barely 100K.
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Since they're hellbent on SE rail, I'd rather it just terminated at downtown until they're ready to do the north properly, but of course then they can't connect colourful MAX lines on a map that way.
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I think there's also the political aspect; not crossing the river makes it all but certain that the NC LRT will not be built for another generation at least and that would probably lose it enough political support that the Gov of Alberta could pull its funding.