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Gone is the city-wide transit network to give buses and cars their own lanes and spur inward and upward development along rapid transit corridors.

It, instead, is a mix-and-match transit plan built from three hacked-up pieces of the now-defunct BRT system that will help people move between downtown and working class areas of the city, but not on the busiest route, plus a lengthy list of side projects including the long-awaited smart traffic signals.

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And left on the table is about $100 million in transit cash from the provincial and federal governments.

London city council, sitting as the strategic priorities and policy committee, spent seven hours talking transit at a marathon meeting Monday night, opting to carve up the BRT plan lauded by the last council but opposed by many voters, into what one city politician called a deal where “nobody comes out happy.”

“Compromises are never beneficial for everybody. Nobody comes out happy with that,” Coun. Stephen Turner said. “We’re going to have to reflect and I’m going to be really interested to hear what the financial numbers will be.”