{"id":5267,"date":"2009-07-06T14:23:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=5267"},"modified":"2009-07-06T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T18:23:05","slug":"instant-funding-for-kitchener-waterloo-lrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/07\/06\/instant-funding-for-kitchener-waterloo-lrt\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant funding for Kitchener-Waterloo LRT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spacing contributing editor Steve Munro, whose active transit blog many of you likely read, recently posted on the new Kitchener-Waterloo LRT line<\/a> their council has decided to have built.\u00a0 For those who have been following Toronto’s funding boondogal for the new streetcars might find this interesting.\u00a0 Steve Munro writes that:<\/p>\n

No sooner had Waterloo approved the LRT line, but local Cambridge\u00a0MP Gary Goodyear announced that Ottawa would contribute $160-million to the project whose total estimated cost is $790-million.\u00a0 This took Regional Chair Ken Seiling completely by surprise.\u00a0 Support also came from Kitchener MP Stephen Woodworth who pointed out that this money will come from the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Build Canada Fund\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, not the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stimulus Fund\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and therefore the project is not constrained by the latter’s March 2011 cutoff.<\/em><\/p>\n

A letter from MP John Mackay sent to both Spacing and Steve, posted in full on stevemunro.ca<\/a>, gives an account of the likely political motivations behind the decision.<\/p>\n

Photo from Benjamin Bach<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spacing contributing editor Steve Munro, whose active transit blog many of you likely read, recently posted on the new Kitchener-Waterloo LRT line their council has decided to have built.\u00a0 For those who have been following Toronto’s funding boondogal for the new streetcars might find this interesting.\u00a0 Steve Munro writes that: No sooner had Waterloo approvedContinue reading “Instant funding for Kitchener-Waterloo LRT”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[462,457,12670,12672,12669,514,21,346,3068,12671,391],"class_list":["post-5267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transit","tag-cambridge","tag-canada","tag-gary-goodyear","tag-ken-seiling","tag-kitchener-mp","tag-mp","tag-other-cities","tag-ottawa","tag-regional-chair","tag-stephen-woodworth","tag-usd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nInstant funding for Kitchener-Waterloo LRT - 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