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Originally Posted by accord1999
At this point, when you factor in what the costs will be for the expansions the tunneled Green Line today has become simply too expensive and too limited. Just to get back to the original 40 km length, you're looking at probably $1.5B to cross the Bow, $3.5B to reach Panorama and $2B to reach Seton, and $400M if you want to add back the Centre Street station. Plus hundreds of millions for another maintenance yard because Highfield will be lucky to handle and store 20 trains.
Even if you could get funding for all of that in a reasonable time frame, is their political support to direct 100% of another generations worth of transit capital funding for one line?
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The rest of the thing isn't going to be as expensive, they are doing the hard part including tunneling first. Hardest part that is left is getting over the river and then it's a lot simpler project.