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Originally Posted by FacePaint
Price increase was completely the fault of delays caused by the Province. So when you say you're on the side of the Province are you on the side that paused construction for review, then agreed with tunneling. Or the side of the Province that paused construction again for review and forced through a new, crappy plan?
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I believe the only point you can say that province delayed the project was around 2021, where they wanted to review the new alignment the city put forth that reduced the line from crossing the Bow River downtown to ending at Eau Claire. I was not a fan of the province doing that, but they did endorse it afterwards, and we proceeded to the detailed design stage where we found out what the new costs were expected to be. Due do the inflation of all construction costs since covid, and other North American cities facing the same cost escalation issues with their transit projects that involved tunnels in their downtown core, I believe the stub line end resulted would've been the same even without the provincial delay.