As the provincial government makes transit announcement after transit announcement, two opposition MPPs charged Friday, Waterloo Region is being left out of the party.

“While the promises have been many … the truth has become more obvious with each subsequent transit announcement elsewhere in the province,” Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Michael Harris told a group of reporters.

Harris – a Progressive Conservative – and his Kitchener-Waterloo NDP counterpart Catherine Fife held a press conference to address what they termed a lack of “transit fairness” for Waterloo Region.

They outlined a laundry list of recently transit announcements for other parts of the province, including expanded GO train service for the Barrie area, a light rail transit line for Hamilton, and an LRT line connecting Mississauga and Brampton.

They also mentioned a number of transit promises for Waterloo Region which have yet to come to pass, such as ‘all-day, two-way’ GO service and high-speed rail.

“Waterloo Region has heard many promises from this Liberal government,” Fife said.

The opposition MPPs also questioned a pledge from the province to fund two-thirds of the currently under construction LRT line.

Kathryn McGarry, the Liberal MPP representing Cambridge, said that offer was made when the projected cost of the line was much lower – and the province ended up increasing its share to $300 million, or a little more than one-third of the total cost.

“These commitments were made a decade ago,” she told CTV News.

“If that project was going ahead today … we may have a different story. We may have much more funding provided by the province.”

Regional officials have said they hope to have a proposal for extending the light rail line into Cambridge ready by the end of 2016.

When that happens, they want to see it eligible for full funding similar to that received by the newer LRT systems.

“If the proposal comes forward from the region … it will be looked at under this Moving Ontario Forward plan, and will be eligible for the investment at that time,” McGarry said.

The province has said it will spend $15 billion on transit initiatives outside the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton within the next 10 years.