Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

[danbrotherston]

Just because only a portion of the population uses a public facility is hardly a reason not to invest in such facilities.  One imagines that there are people in Kitchener who have never been to CITS or the KPL.

It's all a question of scale. I'm not suggesting anything about this project, but many cities spend a significant fraction of their capital budget on projects like this, which are not in line with the actual portion of the public which values the thing.

I don't know about CITS (I thought it was operated separately from the city anyway) but KPL is only a small fraction of the city's budget.

We do see this kind of aberration from governments pretty often though...Toronto is spending something like half it's 10 year capital transportation budget on a single road which serves only around 70k people a day in the city. In terms of dollars per person, it's an insane proposition. If TTC got funding at that rate, the city's transpo budget would have to be doubled and then 100% dedicated to TTC, and that's just existing ridership.