Comment 120206

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted September 30, 2016 at 14:04:55 in reply to Comment 120204

This is a very conservative budget with a large contingency built in to cover just this sort of issue (remember that we've built LRT in Toronto, Ottawa and Waterloo so we already have a pretty good idea of what sort of costs are involved ... Hamilton is not exceptional). Compare the per km cost with other LRT systems: $1 billion is already very high.

Are you really saying we should refuse the entire investment because there is a chance $1 billion might not build the full LRT system that's been proposed? That is very strange logic!

Would you only accept 100% payment of capital costs by other levels of government in Hamilton if there is an unlimited budget? That's ridiculous and irresponsible. I guess you would oppose any infrastructure project at all, especially those the City has to fund, on those grounds.

Comment edited by kevlahan on 2016-09-30 14:05:19

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