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Originally Posted by sleepingmoose
I think the point is that the river crossing is big money - they have a (comparatively) large amount of money now, so by getting to the north side of the river, even if barely across, it makes it much more feasilble to build an extension further north in smaller stages with smaller pots of money.
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It's just bonkers, because one of the reasons to go LRT in the north is to remove buses, since that corridor is pretty much at capacity. So now you add an LRT line and lose traffic lanes, but still will require all the buses you had previously. So you have just made more congestion with no tangible benefit. I mean, I guess if you wan the bridge now, build the bridge, but there isn't much point in disrupting centre. You could even use the bridge as a busway in the meantime, which would actually be useful. An LRT up to 16th is worse than useless, it's disruptive.