Someone a bit up the thread surmised that the operating funds for M1 Rail will cause less money to be available to DDOT; at least that's what I took from the comment. The M1 Rail consortium has pledged to fund operations for the first ten years. The grand scheme is that by then the RTA will be fully functional and able to take it over. If that doesn't happen then I can foresee the system continuing to be funded in some way by downtown development, such as by a tax-increment finance authority. But in no way is there any intent for the City per se to fund operations - which is the only way you could reasonably link it to any decrease in DDOT funding.
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