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economist suntribune- transportation saturday aug 17 2002 province not waiting for feds to help from page 1 prime minister jean chretiens caucus task force on urban issues said the same thing in its interim report in april congestion is not so much a symp tom of not enough roads but of not investing enough in other forms of transportation the report read canada is the only g8 country without a national urban transit invest ment program the task force believes it is time the government of canada develop a program to specifically address urban transit mr fisch said the planned transit investment is all predicated on the feds coming in this issue is on everyones agenda today said mr fisch the feds will have to provide funding the munici palities knew about it the provincial government eventually came in now its the feds turn however transportation ministry spokesperson bob nichols said provin cial funding announced last week is not contingent on ottawa matching it mr nichols said if federal money isnt added municipalities can private sector partnerships pay twothirds of the cost of projects themselves or scale back the projects york region transits immediate projects will go ahead with the region paying twothirds of the cost theyve all been funded yrt gen eral manager don gordon said weve taken a worstcase scenario of assuming no federal dollars so were able to fund all these with the province providing 66 mil lion that leaves york region to pick up 134 million which mr gordon said will come from development charges and debentures he added however the region cant sustain that level of funding its our hope and expectation the federal government will come to the table he said oak ridges mp bryon wilfert a mem ber of the task force on urban issues indi cated thats not likely to happen the last time i looked municipalities were under the jurisdiction of the province he said adding mere is nothing to stop municipalities from applying for funding under federal programs such as the strategic infrastructure fund were not awash in money he said thats why were keen on partnerships to that end he said he met with mr fisch last week to discuss funding for the regions transit system from various sources among the transit projects earmarked for york within the next year are expan sion of the regions bus services upgrad ing computerized scheduling software and building bus bays at the new centennial go station in markham mr gordon said half the 36 extra con ventional buses to be added to the system have been ordered already there also will be an additional 10 buses providing transit for disabled resi dents the software upgrades are to be completed by early next year and the bus bays in markham should be fin ished by november the new buses will be used mostly to expand interregional transit service into the downsview and finch subway stations and the new don mills station to be opened on the sheppard line in november a message from the war amp to order 0 jpo 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