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Originally Posted by SteelTown
For 6 new articulated buses it cost $5.5 million. Those are coming right away, as announced by Dalton during the election.
For the East/West corridor $17.4 million will be spent for 12 buses which should cost $11 million. So they'll be $6.4 million leftover, probably for streetscaping to add a transit lane.
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I don't think the addition of all these buses necessarily means that we will only ever get BRT.
The fact is, there are not enough Articulated Hybrid Buses currently. I take this route twice daily, and it's very rare that I get on one of these buses. Prolly like 2-3 rides /week. And everytime I'm on a normal bus (as either King or Beeline), it's crazy packed (depending on the time of the day).
So these new buses will be a VERY welcome addition... yet it certainly doesn't limit us to BRT.
If the city were to start building LRT, would they wait til 2010 or whatever it was for the money from Dalton? Or would they start once the official plan was complete?