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Blasting the Green Line as city hall’s biggest boondoggle, mayoral candidate Bill Smith says he would hit pause and re-evaluate the multibillion-dollar transit project slated to begin construction in 2020.

If elected, Smith would stop all work on the Green Line and examine rerouting the transit project either deep into the city’s north or far into the south.

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“$4.5 billion for 46 kilometres now turned into $4.6 billion for 20 kilometres,” Smith told a Postmedia editorial board on Thursday.

“Has there been a bigger boondoggle in our city?”

In May, the city’s transportation boss said what was originally touted as a $4.5-billion, 28-station, 46-kilometre transit line from 160th Avenue N. to Seton in the deep south would be split into segments.

The first phase will cost $4.65 billion and stretch 20 kilometres, and include 14 stations from a maintenance facility at 126th Avenue S. through the downtown to 16th Avenue N.