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Originally Posted by Torture
Right, but it's a lot easier to get funding to go north once you've tunneled through downtown and gotten over the river.
If they start now, Stage 1 isn't finished until 2027 so that's 7 years to find funding to go further north and acquire the land required, whether that's one station at a time or multiple. This is essentially the same way they built the red line.
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My concern is that the Green Line received an unprecedented amount of funding on the expectation that it was going to be enough to build the entire line in one stage. Even the worse case scenarios had always considered Beddington-Shepard to be the core; not 16th Avenue. It may be a while before Calgary gets it turn again at billion dollar+ transit funding. The City itself is going to take till 2044 until it pays off its share of Stage 1 capital and financing costs.
The Red Line was built in stages because it got much less money (even after inflation or purchasing power adjustment). Another potential scenario would be the NE and West LRT, with a 27 year difference in opening dates.