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Old Posted Nov 2, 2023, 10:38 PM
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BRT in the older parts of Quebec isn't going to be great. Narrow streets, irregular intersections, elevation considerations. $8.4B is not realistic but it seems something's wrong if you can't build a tram in a city of that size with a small underground portion. How is it that Valenciennes has a large modern tramway system and Quebec City plans a tramway for over a decade and ends up building nothing because the projected cost ends up being astronomical?
You would think with the amount of LRT projects being built recently in North America we would have developed a local construction ecosystem that would start bringing the cost of these things down.
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