How does the price rise go from $1.4 to $2.4 billion in 6 years..............absurd! The NEW line in Vancouver will also include a one km tunnel due to going thru a narrow part of a busy residential road. Heads should roll over this but they won't. It's reaons like this why Toronto's mass transit expansion has gone no where in 20 years.
How did Vancouver complete a 20km Metro system including a tunnel downtown, under False Creek, continue underground a further 11 km with some very steep inclines, a huge tall exclusive bridge over the mighty Fraser which includes bike and pedestrian lanes underneath it, a further bridge to the airport with service to literally the front door and service to Richmond Centre, new bus terminals, bus HOV lanes along the freeway to get there, a new fleet, a brand new maintenance building and command centre all with 15,000 PPHPD for $2.2 billion?
How is it that in Calgary where labour costs are higher than Toronto and the land prices the same is building an NEW 8 km LRT for $850 million but is true LRT? It is true rapid transit in a true mass transit system with 80 metre covered and heated stations, complete ROW whith no interaction with streets at all, a half KM tunnel, and a new fleet to serve it and two new Park n Rides.
Toronto should take TC bake to it's original prices, put out bids, no escalated dollars, and begin construction immediately which most of it could even with the cut backs. .