07-16-2019, 07:56 PM
(07-16-2019, 05:11 PM)KevinL Wrote: Once again he ignores CP's obstinacy in allowing service through Milton. Unless unprecedented political pressure is brought to bear against a private company, that concept is literally going nowhere.
That said, the idea for a branch line to Guelph via Hespeler is reasonably viable, and I hope he can be convinced of its merits and brought on board in support.
Also I believe his characterization of the cost of BRT vs. LRT is misleading, possibly even shading into dishonest. He says the BRT plan from 2011 would have been half the cost of the LRT. Well, the original LRT plan was also less than half the cost of the actual LRT. I believe the initial estimates from early in the process were well under $400M. Once we seriously got into it, we got a better estimate which stayed amazingly close to constant as the project progressed through the RFP.