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Originally Posted by accord1999
It wasn't a train for the entire city, it was the equivalent of two generations of transit funding for this area:
And both plans are going to the Deep SE, the only difference is the Alberta plan wants to spend no more than existing funding, the Green Line plan needs another $2B. |
And the "alberta plan" (which we don't even know about yet), doesn't go downtown, so has ZERO plan of even trying to make a working system.
The WHOLE point was to build a ROW downtown, because we need one to add any new line. This one that we wanted to build, provided one that could be used for lines running in at least 2 directions - if not more in the future)..
The UCP is responsible for the delays that caused contract to have to wait until after inflation, and then the province refused to adjust for inflation, which is why the line got cut shorter right at the end.
Its a $2B political stunt by the UCP. I strongly suspect that the city will be suing the UCP and/or the province for that money. Probably should add Smith, Dreeshan, and Kenney personally.