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Originally Posted by J.OT13
I strongly believe we should have kept the streetcars, but we took em' out in 58' and it probably cost us around 50 million (guessing, not based on facts) do so. In those 64 years without streetcars, we went from the size of Kingston to a major metropolis, 10 times larger. So I don't think it would be wise to invest billions in reinstating a system we took out over half a century ago, adding little capacity to our transit system.
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The proposed 2.1 billion dollars downtown tunnel is simply replacing the present Transitway system with a LRT line. What "capacity" is being added to the transit sytem for 2.1 billion dollars? BTW, that's 2,100 million dollars!