Mayors’ Council meets and decides on TransLink’s 2010 plan and funding on Friday, Oct. 23
Mayors’ Council meets and decides on TransLink’s 2010 plan and funding on Friday, Oct. 23
Just a heads up to let you know that the Mayors’ Council will be meeting in the morning on Friday, October 23, and they will be deciding on our 10-Year Plan for 2010.
The main TransLink site has the full details of the three 10-Year Plan options before the Council, plus an explanation of our planning process. (Here’s a past blog post on the planning process too.)
As you may know, there’s three plan options with distinct funding levels to choose from: an On Track plan with about $450 million of funding, a Funding Stabilization plan with $130 million, and a Drastic Cuts scenario with no new funding.
As part of our planning process, the independent Regional Transportation Commissioner has reviewed all these plans — this post has more on that — and the Friday Mayors’ Council meeting is to determine their approval for the plans.
Reporter Jeff Nagel wrote a piece today reporting that the mayors are looking at the $130 million option, so do check out his article for more on that.
And of course, on Friday I will have more info on whatever the mayors do decide and what it means for us.
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Wasn’t there a moderate expansion $200something option between the $130 million and $450 million option as well?
Sort of. The $450 million plan is a layered option — it starts with a base funding scenario of $275 million, but also has provisions to expand funding up to $450 million.
I hope the Evergreen Line (MUST be the current ALRT Skytrain option, not the pathetic at-grade LRT) can still be built and completed even with the $130 million option. Jhenifer, I’ve heard contradictory statements from Translink and the Provincial gov’t about this. Will the Evergreen Line still be built?
During the Canada Line planning meetings. The tri-cities were a big supporter of at-grade solutions.
Many home owners are losing their homes along North Road because Evergreen is not at-grade.
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Henry A:
I think we need to hear the funding decision from the mayors on Friday before we can know anything definite about the status of Evergreen Line. Tough to plan when you don’t know your exact budget, right? So, anyway, on Friday I’ll hopefully have a bit more info on that.
How about raising funds with a Bake Sale of those SkyTrain cakes :-)
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