08-31-2016, 04:03 PM
One caveat to add about LRT cost rating to townships in particular: the townships argued for LRT as not just a transit service, but as an infrastructure project that would help stop sprawl, destruction of farmland, and to help preserve the township and rural way of life in ways that bus routes and regular transit just do not accomplish. So there's some logic that if they'd argue for it on behalf of their residents, you could area rate them into it, without area rating them into overall transit.