05-10-2025, 10:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-10-2025, 10:54 AM by danbrotherston.)
(05-10-2025, 09:04 AM)Momo26 Wrote: https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article...cambridge/
“A staff person talked about option 5 or plan 5 which would be scrapping the LRT and just going with the bus rapid transit into Cambridge,” Liggett told CTV News.
She admitted it was the first time regional councillors heard about it.
“I know that’s earth-shattering news, but that was an open session of regional council today,” she said during the Cambridge meeting.
The expansion of LRT into Cambridge carries a hefty price tag of about $4.5 billion. Liggett said it might not be realistic in today’s economy.
》》 thoughts?
4.5 billion isn't realistic in any economy.
But given that the wording doesn't even allow the idea of questioning why the price is so absurd, I expect that the opposition will get their way, and use the price inflation to kill the project.
And that group of people almost certainly has a lot of overlap with the people who will use this as yet another grievance Cambridge will hold over Kitchener, and as a reason to oppose any other work on the LRT (thus holding back the whole region).
Yeah, I'm a negative nelly today.