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Old Posted Sep 8, 2018, 3:55 PM
Joseph Potvin Joseph Potvin is offline
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RE: motivation for higher governments to spend billions

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Originally Posted by Truenorth00 View Post
If commuter rail ever gets built in Ottawa ... It'll absorb a lot of the peak riders and destroy any motivation for higher governments to spend billions building LRT.
How about that, folks. Truenorth00 and I agree about something!

As for his notion that "it'll be the end of LRT expansion", nah.

Who financed and built Ottawa's original electric LRT? Government or the private sector?

Who demolished Ottawa's original electric LRT? Government or the private sector?

Now, as for thinking up ways to motivate higher governments to spend billions of dollars, back when I was on the core drafting team for Canada's Green Plan, we did conceptualize a mission-critical thing or two in the recommendations that -- 30 years later -- still await serious attention.

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