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Originally Posted by Capital Shaun
The NCC can have all the good ideas they want but without any financial commitments from the federal level, most of these projects will never see the light of day.
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Funding committments from the two cities, and the two provinces that Ottawa and Gatineau are supposedly in, would be nice, too.
Say it would cost (number out of a hat) $100-million and two years to extend the O-train from Bayview to Hull. Split five ways, over two years, that's $10-million per funding partner per year. Not quite chump change. But not onerous, either, for a national capital, two cities totalling over a million in population, the country's fourth-largest metro area, Ontario's second-largest, and Quebec's third-largest. There are highway interchange projects that cost as much or more.
But, this being Ottawa, and Gatineau, the bastard children of Confederation, ignored by their respective provinces, Nothing Will Ever Happen.
Nothing.
EVER.