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Errors and omissions is very different than indemnifying every cost the city can dream up at 100 cent dollars.

Risk lens proportionality has to be applied here. The city has elevated stations and guideway costed for this project already, just different parts. Despite being 60% designed the tunnel and underground stations have much higher risk than a 5% design for the downtown/beltline elevated section...

Or the city can take what they’ve been told by the province: elevated on this route and do what it typically does: optimize. I think you’re getting too granular for the decision at this point. I understand that for many all that can be compared is document to document. But the choice isn’t...

Not wanting to see projects developed that fall below a certain cost to benefit ratio? Not that it was expressed exactly as this.

The savings from not having to do utility relocation would more than pay for the expropriation (a few years back counted how many properties — it isn’t a big number — and guessed at the cost —if you avoid churches the cost is predictable) and elevation. Council views land purchases and...

Nah. There is zero chance of a lawsuit succeeding. It is just posturing and anyone saying it is stupid is 'explaining and losing'.

As a lawyer he should be embarrassed to propose that.

There isn't enough time to do this, and the city already has contractors in place.

The source is not great, but... Statscan did update 17-10-0020-01 on December 17th. Here is a quick excel to calculate net per quarter Likely BetterDwell ran a couple news articles through an AI system to seem like it was original, and published an article.

Which is neither here nor there. The big concern about that is the city using its evaluating framework for path dependencies for underground on an elevated line. Ending at 7th underground creates huge future costs if an expansion was ever wanted. Ending at 7th above ground does not. It is just a...

The UCP usually accompanied that pronouncement with ‘and connecting with the red and blue lines’. I think in the case of the AECOM report the province was legitimately surprised that elevated to around city hall was such a bad idea when their friends had said it was a good idea for years. Plus...

Everyone has rejected that but you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This isn’t about whether the city can apply later and get money for the same purpose but in a different time period—on that I agree with you. It is, the program that ran from 2015-2027 will be over, and the money from that program will be inaccessible. That money just doesn’t sit in a bank...

Keeping walls from bucking inwards is hard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ building things to last 50 years in that box is also hard.

The province has explicitly said it would not agree to stopping the line at 4th. You are correct, the project needs to begin in March or it is no longer eligible. From the Feds’ perspective this project was supposed to be done at the latest at the end of march 2027.

In the $200 million range underground, but that was all contracted awhile ago now. The 4th street de underground station needed to be large enough to handle surge traffic from the event centre. That’s a hard thing to do. Underground expanding in any dimension grows your cost by the cube.

No. Misdiagnosing the problem as a lack of technical expertise. The city needs to learn how to govern projects better. Not how to dig in bad geology better. There is no way to improve digging if council isn’t asking and not asking the right questions, and staff doesn’t feel empowered to answer...

The deferral would be still building the volume, and presumably evacuation stair cases, some air handling, but nothing else.

Here is a funny one from the report Walcott posted. Only too late did they realize underground stations cost $400 million EACH. My word. And they somehow think underground is cheaper? I had speculated that the underground stations were in the $200 million range before, but, wow.

This would require every level to agree to the scope change. Materially, while it builds different things, it is not actually different from the city's Lynnwood plan strategically. For the downtown section you get back to contractibility, with a project that is all the downtown segment. Since...