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How This Small City Built Light Rail For Cheap
This video looks at how Waterloo, Ontario built the ION LRT at a fraction of the cost of most Canadian and American transit projects.
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Report on transit construction costs by Jedwin and colleagues: https://schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Understanding-the-Drivers-of-Transit-Construction-Costs-in-Canada_Feb-2025_FINAL.pdf
How Montrealβs miracle metro could change everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlHqqA0onn0
Survey on Stage 2 of Waterloo LRT (open until Oct 24, 2025): https://www.engagewr.ca/Stage2ION
IONize Waterloo Region newsletter: https://ionizewr.ca/
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By This video looks at how Waterloo, Ontario built the ION LRT at a fraction of the cost of most Canadian and American transit projects.
Keep Urbanity rolling:
Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity
Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit
Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/ohtheurbanity.bsky.social
For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit
References:
Report on transit construction costs by Jedwin and colleagues: https://schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Understanding-the-Drivers-of-Transit-Construction-Costs-in-Canada_Feb-2025_FINAL.pdf
How Montrealβs miracle metro could change everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlHqqA0onn0
Survey on Stage 2 of Waterloo LRT (open until Oct 24, 2025): https://www.engagewr.ca/Stage2ION
IONize Waterloo Region newsletter: https://ionizewr.ca/