NC LRT Advocacy Group

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Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

I didn't include financing costs, because, frankly, neither route is getting built without another level of government paying for the majority of it.

No - you didn't consider dollars because it doesn't help your argument.

Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

Additional travel times, needing to continue more buses running downtown, Doesn't connect NC area north of Beddington to area south of Beddington together very well. Just a few examples.

On the other hand you're servicing more people and better. Regarding connecting north of Beddington to south of Beddington, if someone wants to skip the co-op, superstore and sobeys to the North to get to the co-op and safeway to the south, there is the bus trap direct access. Works really well (for buses that is).

Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

Continued growth may require a streetcar or significantly upgraded BRT system.

May this and may that. That's a bunch of hypothetical non-analysis. Give me a break.

Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

I don't see how you could get to Aurora faster, all else equal, it would be roughly the same.

You'd get there at least ten years faster.

Originally Posted by You Need A Thneed

Read the added last part of my previous post. In short, a central alignment isn't as outrageously costly as some would make it out to be, and certainly, the Nose Creek alignment isn't nearly as relatively inexpensive as some make it out to be.

An extra few billion is a lot of money no matter how you cut it.