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I would expect funding from upper levels of governemnt to change with the mode selected. ie, if capital costs for lrt are less than skytrain, the province and feds will fund less. and the o+M costs are all translinks.

Province pushes Evergreen Line ‘aggressively’ « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

How will evergreen as skytrain or lrt? cause operating costs to skyrocket?

Mayors fear being railroaded on transit financing « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

If you want to gold-plate these routes for existing riders, use lrt, if you want better transit, just use cheaper non-rail surface options.

Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

Your argument that lrt is so much cheaper than the grade separated line you build on false premises.

Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

Stephen, in Calgary the successful C-Train lrt runs within the median of a freeway – Crowchild Trail.

Great debate over future commutes « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009

One rubber-tyred option was prematurely discarded by a now-disgraced former mayor as not developed enough, even though the cost would have been half that of lrt.

Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

Actually, lrt on Cambie and Evergreen would attract little extra ridership than current bus ridership.

Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

I see the lrt selection by the then Translink board as being no different than when Skytrain was initially chosen for the Evergreen Line, or Millennium Line for that matter.

Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

The lowest cost lrt on Cambie was $1.2 B and would basically have been a streetcar.

Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog 2009

It has also been a boondoggle in many cases, for example in Seattle, but still called a wild success by lrt promoters.

Canada Line delivers a smooth ride « Stephen Rees's blog 2009