A couple things.
First. I'm trying to understand the north transit garage replacement funding and schedule.
According to the 2023 budget, there was $44 million budgeted last year for the project. I assume that went unspent and reallocated elsewhere, since there is definitely not $44 mil of work complete on the project. There is $88 million budgeted for this year, and another $67 million for the next 2 years. As far as I know, there are currently zero plans in place to construct the garage. What's with the $200 million in funding???
Second. There is $7 million sin funding plan for 2025 and 2026 for preliminary design on the downtown rapid transit portion. So the extension through Union Station. Assuming that schedule holds and the work doesn't keep getting pushed. Earliest we'd see any construction action would likely be 2030 ish based on funding and who the Mayor is at that point. Could see it as an election promise type thing.
Information included in the budget here, on Page 200-201 for the garage and page 203 for the RT thing.
https://www.winnipeg.ca/sites/defaul...Volume%203.pdf