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Yup. The last 2 years have seen 0.5% dedicated roads funding increases, so 0.89% is a new increase this year.

If you look at the capital budget forecast, roads spending really ramps up around 2026. Around then the City is planning to start sinking some serious cash into roads. Main st will get redone, they are planning on widening Rymal, Garner, and Barton (Stoney creek), and a whole whack of resurfacings like King St in the east end, Golf Links Rd, etc.

This year the schedule is for York / Cannon to get done, as well as Wilson’s east end and Upper Wentworth beside Limeridge.

Hamilton has a big hole to dig out of on the roads front but I think we are going to finally start seeing some real progress in the next few years.

The crazy thing is that $195 million is considered the “Sustainable” level of roads spending, and for decades the city spent less than 1/4 of that. It’s a miracle roads aren’t worse than they are.