06-25-2015, 12:52 PM
The devil is in the details. In some cases (a la 407, which strictly speaking wasn't a P3) the private operators have a say on the fees collected and were allowed to jack them up rather arbitrarily. So what at first seemed like a fair contract ends up being a license to print money. In the case of the LRT the fees are under control of the Region so the concerns do not seem to apply, but it is always good to keep an eye on what's happening.
In my opinion a lot of time was wasted debating BRT v. LRT in the last three years when LRT had already been chosen the winner. Then the real effective input would have been in "what type of LRT?", "what funding model?", "what route?", "where the stops go?", "what's the speed of the thing?", etc.
In my opinion a lot of time was wasted debating BRT v. LRT in the last three years when LRT had already been chosen the winner. Then the real effective input would have been in "what type of LRT?", "what funding model?", "what route?", "where the stops go?", "what's the speed of the thing?", etc.