Comment 27146

By Frank (registered) | Posted November 04, 2008 at 11:07:01

So you're able to tell me why I won't answer your questions? You're also able to use one city's numbers to make an assumption like yours. Before any construction is done, there will be a budget put forward. Also, we don't plan on going ahead without major funding by higher levels of government. It's already been said/shown that the cost of maintaining an LRT system is less than that of a bus system. The capital cost upfront is more, the maintenance cost is less. You say this is pie in the sky, yet the case studies undertaken in many other cities across the continent show that putting in an LRT system serves as a catalyst of sorts to an economic boom.

I wonder if it cost more to put those horizontal traffic lights on Calgary streets. Can you check that for me? Maybe we should change ours around... Calling something pie in the sky before any real numbers are put forward is calling out "the sky is falling". Just wait to argue until someone comes up with some real numbers. We can't spring for marble on a renovated city hall, we won't spring for something astronomically expensive if there's no real benefit to doing so. Also note that the funding for our system will most likely be more than 80% from sources other than the city. I come up with (using your numbers without checking them) a total cost of 1.53 billion at 20% from city coffers that's 305mil for a 16km stretch of LRT, almost 2.5 times cheaper than Calgary's system which is less than half as long. Not to shabby...

By all means, buy an electric car. I can't find one with enough storage that's not as big as an SUV (i.e. I need a hatchback) that is worth my money yet. One thing I do know...me and many others I know will ride a train downtown rather than drive or take a bus.

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