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Can St John Transit piggyback on a big agency’s order to reduce the unit costs of replacement? In Ontario, the Metrolinx Transit Procurement Initiative buys new buses in bulk to general requirements developed by several agencies together, so that they can get the bulk savings of big orders.

That’s a great idea. It’s the type of role that DTI or a new provincial agency could start playing as they get deeper into transit.

That statement is not entirely accurate. While the Province of Ontario has long provided capital funding for new subway and light rail lines, they stopped providing operating funding almost thirty years ago.

Ontario provides a portion of the gas tax. NB doesn’t. So it’s 100% accurate :) news.ontario.ca/en/backgroun...

The $178M for Toronto is only a small fraction of the TTC's almost $1.4B budget which the Province used to fund half until the late 1990's. Still, having been born and raised in Moncton, I don't understand why NB wouldn't fund transit.