By Joanne Chianello, Ottawa Citizen, April 22, 2015
The 2015 federal budget offers the most optimistic sign yet that the
Conservative government will pony up its one-third of the $3-billion second
phase of Ottawa’s light-rail project. The new Public Transit Fund will —
eventually — make good on demands by cities and the Federation of Canadian
Municipalities for the federal government to invest $1 billion a year on urban
transit. The fund gets off to a slow start, by only providing a total of $750
million until 2019, but permanently commits $1 billion annually thereafter. via
Chianello: Budget’s transit fund a positive sign for Ottawa’s Phase 2 LRT |
Ottawa Citizen.