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Leong: Why the Green Line and other transit projects have seen costs balloon

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A new paper by the University of Toronto’s School of Cities outlines some of the problems plaguing some new public transportation infrastructure in many parts of the world.

The study identified a rise in the cost of many transit projects well beyond the rate of inflation in Canada , the U.S. , Hong Kong , Singapore , the United Kingdom and Australia over the past 25 years .

The authors were also critical of practices that hide information from the public.

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