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Originally Posted by Nite
No other federal government has spent as much on transit than the current government. why do you think every major city in this country is on their largest transit expansions ever all at this time??
With the increasing weight and of vehicles and more so with electric vehicles, the maintenance cost of new roads will explored in the coming years.
you are just wasting billions if you decided to expand the road network under these circumstances.
When the Ontario government had downloaded the gardiner to the city of Toronto, it was driving the city broke trying to maintain it. this will be the fate of most suburban communities when their road networks reach the end of life and they don't have room to expand anymore and can't generate enough revenue to fix their existing roads.
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In the Big 6 metros, sure. But not in the smaller cities, and definitely not intercity transportation, where all the feds have to offer is a glacial pace (7 years and counting of "studies") half-assed "HSR" plan for the TOM corridor.
What exactly has this government done to make non-road mobility easier for people in Halifax, or Saskatoon, or Winnipeg? Or for people travelling between Calgary and Edmonton, the 4th and 6th largest cities in the country?
Until the answer to those questions is something substantially better than "Nothing at all", we can't seriously be talking about jettisoning road investment.