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LRT has these main advantages: more energy have been well over two million boardings and a 33
efficient, can move more passengers at a lower cost per cent increase in boardings. ION will no doubt

per rider, Waterloo Region is part of a Canadian- push the Waterloo Region ahead even more. Since

wide interest in LRT, with major municipalities such it’s approval in 2011, $3.2 billion worth of permits
as Vancouver, Toronto, also making significant have been issued, mostly residential and by the ION

investments in LRT. stops stations.

“One of the key initiatives for the Province of

The modernity of the LRT was really put on display Ontario is to encourage in our urban cores,” says

during excavation on King Street in Waterloo that Simon, “and we're now seeing about 55 per cent
unearthed a historic corduroy road paved with percent of development taking place in our cores,

logs and sand used by Mennonite settlers, that so we are succeeding on that front as well. It is
archaeologist suggest could have been from the an exciting time for the Waterloo Region, and

earliest historic development of the region. If ever transportation in Canada.”

there was an illustration of how far transport has
evolved, this is it. www.rapidtransit.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/

In the early months since ION has launched there

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