In the vein of it feels the Green Line is going slowly;
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... Andrew Knack, who is running to retain his Ward 1 seat, said he expects the Notley government to announce its financial support in the next couple of months and for the contracts to go out to tender in 2018, with construction to start in late 2019. ...
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https://web.archive.org/web/20170925...d-will-be-lost
I get it, YEG started planning sooner (at least compared to the North Central portion) and had an alignment. It just seems like REM, Ottawa Stage 2, YEG West LRT, YVR's Broadway and Surrey's SNG LRT take a year less than the Green Line LRT to get to tender from June when YYC approved the alignment. It feels like YYC's missed/missing the window. Is it additional time for land assembly? Is it the local politics, like this BS mayoral candidate/astroturf group making it harder to get things done in YYC? Just bad timing for the province; i.e. their fiscal constraints? Just the additional friction of it being a really large project (twice the size of all but REM)?