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Originally Posted by Albertaboy
I'm also curious to know how this thread became a sticky  |
Perhaps the list admin is not so passive-aggressivlely expressing his political leanings ...
As someone who actually pays taxes in Winnipeg, I think a modest LRT would be a good use of my tax dollars. Most capital funding comes from senior levels of government anyway.
I don't necessarily buy the cart/horse argument WRT Calgary. Calgary extended its LRT far into the burbs before there was any density at all to support it, and was surrounded by park and ride lots. When I was there last year that hadn't changed much but perhaps it is beginning to. Calgary also has a huge proportion of its workforce located downtown. The LRT appears to me to be a forward-thinking exercise in good planning with generally positive results in terms of land use (huge sprawl issues notwithstanding).