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Originally Posted by Beatrix
What about Ottawa's LRT plan?
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Ottawa hasn't even submitted it for consideration. These projects must be shovel-ready projects and we aren't even close to moving forward, so we would never get funding for it under this program.
The old plan was ready to go and it was mentioned at City Council in November, but we decided that we don't want to build any LRT (not even part of the old plan not conflicting with the tunnel) until the tunnel is planned and funded. So we lose out on getting any funding for LRT from the upcoming federal budget and infrastructure program.
I think that this was a foolish move on the part of the city to not try to get funding for part of the LRT project even if it wasn't their number 1 priority. There are only so many opportunities to get this kind of funding and we chose that our high minded priorities are more important than trying any way to get parts of it funded.
