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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
There's basically two questions here.
A) If a connection is built, will it generate enough revenue to pay back its capital cost?
B) If yes, how will that change the region?
AFAIK, the Sunshine Coast right now is a popular destination because of its isolation. Beautiful, tranquil, quaint, quiet, natural, serene, removed from the hustle and bustle of urban life... and that's just me reading off random travel blogs.
The point is, bringing in the visitors/residents and investment needed to justify a connection may or may not ruin that, depending on what the plan is. So when Victoria gets around to commissioning people to study this thing, we (and they) should probably think long and hard about what we want the Coast to look like 50 years from now.
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I would add a point to Question B)
B2) If parts of the sunshine coast are brought within commuting distance, how will the traffic generated by the invariably car-centric development of the region be handled by Lower Mainland roadways, and at whose expense?