outoftheice
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Great article by Ricky Leong today in the Sun...
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CalgaryTiger
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I'm not expecting the Province to step up behind this plan. I'm not sure what the point of this 5% report was, other than forcing council's hand. The decision to stop the small and expensive line from going forward was fair, every decision after that has been bad and in bad faith.
I've read up a lot on this and I still do not know what the province is asking the city to do to get the money. It could be; adopt a 5% plan, or it could be more broad and have them agree the tunnel costs too much and work with your private partner on an elevated alignment. I do see them getting to the more broad conclusion but why not save the months, skip the AECOM study, and just ask the city to do that in August. The province wanted to make the city look dumb and show the province could do in three months what the city couldn't do in three years. In that, the province failed. On this forum we're more thorough than AECOM has been and minus the pictures, could come up with a similar report.
I believe the back and forth and finger pointing needs to stop. The city needs to ask what the province wants, the province needs to clarify and clearly communicate the question in front of council to the city and Calgarians. Once we're at that point debate it.
I've read up a lot on this and I still do not know what the province is asking the city to do to get the money. It could be; adopt a 5% plan, or it could be more broad and have them agree the tunnel costs too much and work with your private partner on an elevated alignment. I do see them getting to the more broad conclusion but why not save the months, skip the AECOM study, and just ask the city to do that in August. The province wanted to make the city look dumb and show the province could do in three months what the city couldn't do in three years. In that, the province failed. On this forum we're more thorough than AECOM has been and minus the pictures, could come up with a similar report.
I believe the back and forth and finger pointing needs to stop. The city needs to ask what the province wants, the province needs to clarify and clearly communicate the question in front of council to the city and Calgarians. Once we're at that point debate it.