Let's put it this way. Assume the project (burying the LRT downtown and building the SELRT) takes $2.4 billion to do and it will be split 3 ways. each level of government needs to come up with $800 million to do it.
1. that's a huge chunk of change for the city
2. the province would have to come up with a similar amount for Edmonton to keep the whining down. So they need to find $1.4 billion extra now.
3. the feds would have to also pony up similar amounts of $$$ (at least on a per capita basis) to other major cities in Canada for the same reasons meaning they need to find billions and billions more.
I'm not saying it won't happen, but it will be a tough sell to the various levels of gov't. I really hope it does come through, we need it bad.
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