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I don't have confidence with the city either when the cost have keep increasing with each alignment reduction from their end either.

Also, wouldn't cost overruns have to be covered by the city by default? Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the previous agreements, the province or feds wouldn't be stepping in to cover overruns; that would be on the city.

What I am confident in is that no matter what, elevated will be cheaper than underground. The cost overruns that could occur with the elevated segment, should be most certainly be less than the underground option with no overruns whatsoever. And the probably of that happening with how challenging it appears to be to do underground is highly doubtful.

The way UCP has gone about this is why they are hard to swallow as the government, but I don't think they're actually wrong in regards about this. I think what has made this more controversial than it should be (which I wouldn't be surprised if it's intentional from their end) is the province initially said they were fine with the stub alignment at first, than backtracked once it was approved by council. They should've been transparent in saying that the shrunken line isn't good enough, and downtown's alignment needs to be reimagined to bring costs down and get the line down to Shepard still. If they were more upfront about that then, I think the end result could still be the same in the new proposed alignment, but it could've been viewed as a change done in unison, rather than an ultimatum.