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Let them call it what they want: A menu of transportation projects from which to choose. A path to a transit compromise, to paraphrase the mayor.

Sure, why not?

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But know that when London city council sits down to debate and vote on March 25, it’s really about only one thing: BRT, do or die.

With bus rapid transit having fuelled more than $11 million in spending, years of political debate and duelling PR campaigns as well as a final 60-day ultimatum to make a decision, are we really waiting for city staff to build a list of transportation — and not necessarily transit — projects eligible for $370 million in provincial and federal government funding?

Not really.

That’s the charge — some might say, diversion — led by Mayor Ed Holder in hopes of tapping senior government funding before a federal election puts municipal applications on the back burner.

But as council zeroes in on the future of transportation in the city — a vision that’s been intertwined with rapid transit plans since at least the 2014 municipal election — this is the moment for which nearly half of council has been waiting since Londoners elected them last fall.