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Podcast: This Matters
Episode: The rising costs and concerns of building light rail transit
Description: Guest: Matthew Van Dongen, transportation reporter at The Hamilton Spectator Light rail transit has long been considered a cheaper public transit option, especially when compared to building subways, but many projects are skyrocketing in costs. In Toronto, the Eglinton Crosstown LRT has been bogged down in all kinds of problems and, as we have learned, its problems are not isolated. Other transit development projects in Hamilton and Waterloo are bogged down with their own issues as they continue to get more expensive to build. This episode was produced by Paulo Marques, Brian Bradley and Raju...