ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit

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Somehow they can do things at a fraction of a cost at those locations.

$4.5B for this project through Cambridge isn't doable. Something like this would add at least $50/month to your property tax bill (assuming we pay it over 30 years). That's a huge cost for something that is useless for 90% of the population. Even if we got a cost sharing agreement with the feds and province, this is still 5x the cost of Phase 1. Insane.