Comment 15700

By seancb (registered) - website | Posted December 14, 2007 at 13:45:42

Larry and Ryan: I'm so happy to see LRT come up here because if we pass up this opportunity to spend the province's money wisely, we will likely never be able to build the transit system we need.

Right now, we have a choice:

Spend THEIR MONEY on buses and be faced with huge operational cost increases for the life of these buses - expenses that come out of OUR MONEY

OR

Spend THEIR MONEY on light rail and save OUR MONEY for the life of the system through drastically reduced operating expenses (likely less than half of what buses cost over their lifetime), plus making more of OUR MONEY - from taxes, billions of private investment dolalrs, ridership increases, city image enhancement and emigration that results from it - over the life of the system (other cities have seen anywhere from 900% to four THOUSAND percent return on investment from LRT -- and they invested their own money. We could see this falling into our laps without having to risk any of our own cash!)

We would be stupid not to beg for LRT from the moveontario budget!

I vote down for offensiveness and up for humour. I cast no votes based on my level of agreement.

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