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Originally Posted by accord1999
You mean transit? Because roads on a per passenger trip basis are incredibly cheap.
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Incredibly cheap provided you ignore the construction and upgrade costs that go along with them. Throw a toll on to recover construction costs and you aren't coming back with 20 cents per trip. 20 cents per trip on Deerfoot wouldn't even cover the costs for it alone (albeit that's still a provincial responsibility for the time being).
Between provincial and municipal investment in roads we're seeing billions thrown around each four year budget. Hell, the city is spending $200M just to connect it's own roads to the provinces $3.2B highway. Last major investment in transit like that was a decade ago, which was the first in 25 years. And unlike those projects, Ring Road investment hasn't actually taken pressure of the city's roads like the Red Line did with Macleod and Crowchild. Almost $2B (not included in the previous $3.2B figure, which only goes to the SW and W portions of the Ring Road) and Deerfoot didn't see a reduction in traffic (not a sustained one anyway).
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how the levy to pay for the East Village matches or exceeds all of the 14 new communities put together.
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I'd be all for making the new communities subject to a similar levy plan to fund development as it would ensure none of them get built, because nobody would take the risk on the property taxes funding themselves over that time.