Funding a tunnel: Need money to go faster to get money

Bay councillor Alex Cullen just responded to a question I put to him with, in part, the following:

It is not possible to go faster without federal/provincial funding (this is coming).

As we noted on this site earlier, funding commitments made by other levels of government these days tend to favour projects that are ready to go. But as Cullen admits, this process cannot proceed any more quickly without funding.

Interesting quandary. Cullen says it's on the way, though, so we'll see exactly what that means.