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Originally Posted by GoTrans
Water infrastructure is good only in the southern Canada, it is not good in the hundreds of native communities. Transit is only beginning to get to pass the adequate to the good level in most large urban centres. Roads are good to the detriment of few if any improvements to rail service, freight or passenger. My question is that do you consider rail and transit improvements vanity projects? Please define vanity projects.
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Vanity projects are projects that are over scaled compared to the needed function with some sort of political objective. Sometimes rail and transit projects are vanity projects (high speed rail projects to lightly populated destinations in often fit into this category).
A preference for one transportation mode over another is not a sign of poor infrastructure, it is a choice made by governments.
Water in indigenous communities is a complicated issue, but I understand often has less to do with the infrastructure itself than with operation and maintenance of the infrastructure.
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