[All] LRT/BRT funding announcement?

[Susan Koswan]

I had joined the Facebook page I support Light Rail Transit and this just
came through from a Paul Cyr:

 

Subject: Major Transit Announcement Tomorrow! Could It Be Light Rail
Funding?

Could this be the announcement we've been waiting over a year for?

Tomorrow at 9am in the lobby of the Region of Waterloo Administration
Building (150 Frederick Street, Kitchener), the Honourable Kathleen Wynne
(Ontario Minister of Transportation) will be joined by John Milloy
(Kitchener-Centre MPP), Leeanna Pendergast (Kitchener-Conestoga MPP), and
Ken Seiling (Waterloo Regional Chair) for a major announcement about public
transit in Waterloo Region.

A year ago, Regional Council approved the $790-million plan for light rail
transit in Kitchener and Waterloo, and adapted bus rapid transit in
Cambridge. While the federal government immediately announced an initial
commitment of $160-million in funding, the province has so far been silent
on its funding decision.

In 2007, the provincial government promised to fund 2/3 of the rapid transit
initiative, with repeated assurances since then that the promise would be
kept. However, with the deficit and sudden announcement of $4-billion in
Toronto's transit plans being delayed, many in the region have been left
worrying about whether the province would keep its promise.

Tomorrow seems to be the day we've all been waiting for. Will light rail go
from proposal to reality? We'll find out then! Hope to see you there!

 

Susan K

 

 Read 2080:The Return of Pareto by Susan Koswan 

Environmentalists, corporate fundamentalists, aliens and dandelions... 

In Kitchener/Waterloo bookstores and libraries or from dandelion at gto.net

 

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