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Originally Posted by haljackey
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I thought it was an interesting article too. One thing that really jumped out at me was Turner's statement that upcoming road maintenance, improvement and widening over the next 10 years will result in the same disruptions that BRT construction would. And the kicker is that the city's piecemeal, half-arsed approach to transit will end up costing us $27 million more than it would if we had gone through with the whole BRT plan and not left $94 million of upper-tier government money sitting on the table.
Amazing, when you think about it. That city council would deliberately do half the job on transit, just so they can avoid the ire of the Old North people, the NIMBYites, the business people who are absolutely sure that BRT will permanently kill their businesses, with little proof of said contention, the 'my taxes will go up if you build it' crowd and so on.
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