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Originally Posted by odogfo
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holy shit is this dumb. a lobbyist for some office building owner has succeeded in convincing the city that property values won't rise with the installation of rapid transit in front of their buildings. so the city has decided to spend hundreds of millions (article wasn't clear, is it $700 million more?) to bore a tunnel instead. i've looked at the calgary system, it's already at grade/elevated, so this one will make it worse?? the governments paying for it (we know it's not the city) should reject this and use the extra hundreds of millions on extra cars, another extension, etc.