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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
Pp will almost certainly direct more funding to roads projects- particularly given his recent tweets.
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I hate that it always has to be a war between the two in Canada (roads and transit), most developed nations (East Asia, Europe, etc...) do both properly. Besides some exceptions we do neither well.
The comment by the Liberal Environmental Minister about no more funding for major highway projects (whether an official position of not) was a real bone head maneuver and a red flag, especially for places outside of the Windsor to Quebec corridor where massive highway projects are required (looking at you highway 1 through BC).
If the Liberals really wanted to do some meaningful damage control on this, they would at the very least announce that they are going through with the remaining 40km of twinning in Yoho Park ASAP (and will be continuing through the remaining parks after that).
But nope!
I don't think PP is going to be the transit disaster some on here are fearmongering over.
A wise position would be to continue the current 2 billion a year funding for transit from the feds, continue the HFR / HSR between Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, and move forward with a serious major twinning plan of the #1 through BC and highway 1 upgrades through Manitoba and other more neglected areas. (the Okanagan definitely needs some highway infrastructure love as well)
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