01-26-2015, 04:24 PM
I tend to agree with you. This is all under the Big Move/Metrolinx funding basket, though. Other municipalities in the GTHA will get 100% funding (or other mixes) for other projects.
To add to it, Hamilton's city council has not requested the funding as such. There is still some chance that they will reject LRT, even paid for entirely by another level of government.
I still think this- the province supporting to this extent a 13km LRT line in a city where transit ridership growth has been anemic and which has very little experience with rapid transit- is very positive news in terms of Ion's shot at getting funding for the extension.
To add to it, Hamilton's city council has not requested the funding as such. There is still some chance that they will reject LRT, even paid for entirely by another level of government.
I still think this- the province supporting to this extent a 13km LRT line in a city where transit ridership growth has been anemic and which has very little experience with rapid transit- is very positive news in terms of Ion's shot at getting funding for the extension.