Quote Originally Posted by TennisAndMath View Post
...this project has taken over 7 years and been chopped down to a measly 3 miles...
Let's be precise. M1 Rail, which we have been planning since 2006, always had precisely the length that is now under construction. It was never any longer than what it is today.

Now, between then and now, the City planning staff had the idea of replacing M1 with a longer, and differently constructed, system, which would have gone to the fairgrounds. Without debating the merits of that, it became clear that such a thing could not be constructed for several reasons, and even if it could, it could not be operated, also for a variety of reasons. But that was a different project entirely, and once it died of its own weight, M1 came back in precisely its original form.

If you looked at what we had on the table in 2006-07 and what is on the M1 website today, all that is changed is that the station locations have moved around, and that only slightly.