Expo Line - Surrey Langley Extension: Planning & Pre-Construction

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Originally Posted by queetz@home

It looks like some Fed funding will be coming for the Surrey LRT if the Tories won, although Stephen Harper wasn't able to announce it since he needed to address a critical international issue.

Surrey transit announcement gives way to Syrian refugee crisis

Announcement today:

Conservatives pledge $700 million for Surrey light rail project

So $700 million from the feds aka 1/3rd. That would put the total money if all three put in money of $2.1 billion. Isn't that SkyTrain territory?

I know they keep saying "LRT" but SkyTrain is technically "LRT" just not in the spirit they keep talking about in Surrey. I still hold hope we'll get SkyTrain extension for a variety of reasons (less space required through Green timbers, faster and more future proof, integrated with no mode changes, follow regional backbone strategy, quieter and less disruptive that street LRT, etc., etc.) but maybe I'm being overly optimistic.