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Originally Posted by markbarbera
The funding is for higher order rapid transit. It has never been LRT or nothing.
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Two options were brought forward for consideration by the province in the
Metrolinx Benefits Case Analysis: B-Line LRT and B-Line BRT. One carries a $1B price tag and we're already in the project stream. The other comes with a $300M price tag and the city would potentially be expected to flesh out the business case and reapply for funding.
The City is of course not limited to those projects. It could build its case for any number of different projects. But it's one of those bird-in-the-hand situations.
Oct 2015:
MetroLinx CEO Bruce McCuaig said the provincial money that would have funded the Brampton portion of the defeated LRT plan will now be available for other transit projects across the province.
But he made it clear that any alternative transit plan Brampton now decides on could still be considered by the province for funding. “That would have to be evaluated,” he told councillors.
Nov 2015:
Brampton can't count on hanging on to the money that the province had allocated as its share of the Hurontario-Main LRT, says Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca.…
The money will be reinvested in transportation infrastructure, said Del Duca. But where it goes depends on an analysis of priority transit projects by provincial transportation agency Metrolinx.
"We will proceed with the plan to build the LRT from the Port Credit GO station to Steeles and the balance of the funding in question will flow back into the (province's) Moving Ontario Forward plan to be invested in priority transit projects in the region, which in theory could be a project or more than one project in Brampton but is not necessarily going to be Brampton," he said.
"I can't say at this point it will be in the 905, the 416, in Toronto, in York Region, in Durham, in Brampton because we'll continue to do our work, our analysis," said Del Duca.
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