01-20-2020, 11:02 AM
(01-17-2020, 08:50 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(01-17-2020, 02:28 PM)boatracer Wrote: The bid for the new GRT facility on Northfield closed this week. Bids were between $104M and $120M. I don't know what the budget was. It was a long process as the bid period started in October and there were 16 addenda making clarifications and changes.
https://regionofwaterloo.bidsandtenders....#Submitted
You can download the plans from the same page.
Too bad we wasted all that money on an LRT. Buses are cheap to own, operate, and maintain!
Note: I am actually in favour of more buses and bus maintenance facilities. But it’s interesting that the amount for a single new bus facility is a significant fraction of the cost of the supposedly ruinously expensive LRT system.
Can't tell if you're being serious or not, but, no, busses are not cheap to won, operate and maintain.
More drivers, more mechanics, diesel fuel more expensive than electricity, those are among the things that make a bus route more expensive to operate than an LRT for the same number of passengers.