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[KevinKorell]

Progressive Railroading, 6/23/21:

 

 

   Waterloo ION light-rail plan advances    

 

 

The Waterloo region in Ontario, Canada, is closer to a Stage 2 ION light-rail line and a rail connection to Cambridge.

 

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[KevinKorell]

Kitchener, ON Record,  4/6/23:

 

 

    Cost for extending LRT to Cambridge triples to a projected $4.5 billion    

 

 

Extending light rail transit into downtown Cambridge is now estimated at a whopping $4.5 billion, regional councillors were told.

 

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[KevinKorell]

Column in Cambridge, ON Times, 4/15/23:

 

 

 

  Off the rails: LRT into Cambridge perhaps no longer looking like a lock      

 

 

 

The news could not be much worse for the plans to extend our region’s light rail system into Cambridge.

 

 

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[KevinKorell]

Column in Waterloo Region Record, Kitchener, ON, 8/18/23:

 

 

 

 Light rail has helped Kitchener-Waterloo. Cambridge deserves the same    

 

 

The nice thing about some family members asking for peaches, while others lobby for cherries, is that you know everyone wants to have fruit for dessert.

And so, while some people in Cambridge are calling for the not-yet-built light rail line to take people all the way to downtown Galt, some others are suggesting the Ion transit line should go to Dundas and Main streets, in the southern part of the city, instead.

 

 

Complete column continues

 

 

[KevinKorell]

Waterloo, ON Chronicle, 2/28/24:
 

After long delay, region to make business case for LRT to Cambridge
 

  

 

 
The Region of Waterloo is set to begin work on a key document in its bid to extend light rail transit into Cambridge, after a delay of almost two and a half years.

 

 
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