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Originally Posted by GGG
They need to lobby the feds to allow them to use the funding on a BRT rather than an LRT, get the province to buy in as well. Then build two complete BRTs with dedicated ROW and underpasses at critics intersections.
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Just for clarification, we currently do have the BRTs going to the north and the south east. So these aren't anything new. The new alignment proposal administration put forth for the north is to just upgrade the corridor a bit to make the buses move faster, and have improved bus shelters.
What you're suggesting is moreso a transitway; as was originally intended before the feds came with a boatload of cash to build the whole thing initially.
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Originally Posted by Wormius
If they have to go back to the feds and province, maybe it’s better to ask for the funding to do this right and not a hack job like is getting promoted now. Maybe these big infrastructure projects are in the cars now with gov trying to get people back to work.
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Agreed. At this point commit with the money that is had right now to build what can be built, and lobby to get more funding to cover the extension for the whole line as planned initially. With how quickly the money came in without knowing the true costs of the project, it has caused a lot of the hurdles that the projects has dealt with the for the past several years. But it has given a more accurate projection of the true costs now.