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Originally Posted by gasman
While I am definitely not a fan of Druh Farrell, I do think there is legitimacy in challenging the per user cost of the ring road.
When the city was going through the process of the temporary bike lanes in downtown, there was outrage of the expense for "relatively few riders" It was pretty common for anti's to justify not installing the bike lanes by challenging the per user cost.... That was for a $7.5MM project.
The SW ring road is closer to $135MM in direct cost to the city and over $5B cost to the province. At a time when neither the city or the province is running anything close to a surplus, it is my opinion that these kinds of expenses need to be challenged (not discarded, but the decision needs to be challenged and if it is still a good project then it should proceed)
A lot of time and energy was wasted opposing and defending a $7.5MM expenditure, but your expectation is that everyone jumps on board a project that has a cost that is over 650times larger??
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Based on what though? I support the cycle track entirely and if anything want to see it increased substantially to see enormous expansion. I just think that these per user figures on either side are a sales pitch though. Its like when you're buying a car or house and the salesperson gives you the "its only $10 a week" and you spend the extra $5000 on a car.
I also don't like the "we had trouble getting the cycle-track approved, so now were going to jerk around with you getting this project approved" mentality. To me that just creates more conflict and eventually nothing gets done because of the politics. I don't think that anyone, urban or suburban, votes for that kind of thing.