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When the city announces Wednesday morning that a consortium led by a Spanish construction conglomerate delivered the best bid to build the first phase of the city’s light-rail system, it’ll be back where it was in April 2006. That’s when it declared the winner of the competition to build a rail plan it ended up cancelling just eight months later. This time, it’s supposed to be different. The plan sure is. It’s more expensive, at $2.1 billion versus $725 million. It’s shorter, at 12.5 kilometres rather than 28, and it mainly goes east-west (from Tunney’s Pasture to Blair Road) rather than north-south (from Barrhaven to the University of Ottawa). It’s also more ambitious in a way, including a tunnel under downtown Ottawa that planners expect the city would need before long, rather than running trains along Slater and Albert streets.
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