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Old 08-01-2024, 10:04 AM   #4110
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Originally Posted by powderjunkie View Post
A couple problems. They'd lose a few billion from the Feds/province, and they've already ordered a bunch of rolling stock.

But the federal funding department has asked for a new business case to go with this scope change. The mayor seemed certain that would not be any issue and she's probably right as the feds will likely have a hard on for any version of train to nowhere over a more pragmatic solution that would actually get a lot more people out of ICE cars and into busses.
They've also laid down a fair amount of infrastructure and, on top of that these projects get more expensive the longer you wait.
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