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ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit
"As long as they get to their ask under the current Ontario government they will probably get their funding."

It's almost August 2017. The current provincial government is dissolved in June 2018, about ten months from now. Cambridge councillors are evidently in campaign mode fifteen months or so ahead of the 2018 municipal elections, and will only dig in more to whatever position they may have endorsed as their election approaches.

So, how could everything be prepped to submit an ask under the current government? Only by changing the route (at minimum). Pheidippides' prediction makes sense to me: they will wait until after the municipal elections, to give Cambridge councillors the opportunity to reconsider with the benefit of four long years ahead of them for people to forget. Unfortunately, if the current provincial government is replaced, that might make approval somewhat less likely at that point.
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RE: ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit - by MidTowner - 07-13-2017, 07:13 AM

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