DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

 

1. LIGHT RAIL PILOT PROJECT: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR

IMPLEMENTATION

- joint Planning and Development Approvals Commissioner and OC Transpo

General Manager report dated 9 Sep 99

That Transportation Committee, Transit Services Committee and Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee recommend Council approve:

1. The implementation of the Light Rail Pilot Project on Canadian Pacific Railway’s (CPR) Ellwood Subdivision, as an independent project of the Region and OC Transpo, by the summer of 2001;

2. The establishment of new project authority to accommodate $16,000,000 of expected one-time costs and $3,940,000 of expected operating costs for each of two years;

3. That the project authority for the West Transitway Project No. 942-30626 be adjusted as detailed in this report;

4. The proposed general terms of agreement with Canadian Pacific Railway as contained in Annex A, and the proposed general terms of agreement with Bombardier as contained in Annex B.

 

 

 

 

 

* This item will rise to Council on 22 September 1999.