ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit

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The Region effectively committed to going to Cambridge next when they forced Cambridge taxpayers to contribute to the Ion service (and gave them a 'temporary' bus rapid transit service) and exempted the Townships from paying for anything transit related except by special levy. If Council had instead included all taxpayers when it came to paying for transit, they would better be able to expand transit to where it was needed the most rather than being limited to areas where the perception was that the taxpayers were either 'paying for it' (and therefore owed the next round of service improvements) or 'not paying for it' (and therefore, don't give us transit, because we don't want to pay for it).