So, apparently that $400 million that the upper levels of government had promised is no longer for sure, despite assurances to the contrary by the responsible ministers. Some thoughts:
1) During the municipal election, the impression was that the federal money was our to do as we see fit, so long as it was for transit. Apparently not, in retrospect.
2) Provincially, the deal was for the Chiarelli-LRT plan, so presumably if council passed it again everything would be kosher. That doesn’t seem likely to happen, so who knows what will follow?
So, the city is left with the status quo: lots of sprawl in all directions, and not enough bus capacity to handle the traffic in the core. Woo!
Fellow Travellers 
January 22nd, 2007 
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Sooo…a $700M-$1B project is cancelled because of cost concerns, with the consequences that council a) forgoes $400M of free transit money, and b) is sued for $400M. Gong show.