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Old 03-26-2021, 02:39 PM   #42
Mull
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Originally Posted by accord1999 View Post
If you just simply took combined provincial and Federal excise taxes plus licenses and compared it with spending on roads, it's close to 100%.



Total revenue is about $2.46B in 2019.

Government of Alberta maintenance and capital spending on bridges and roads appears to average about $1.3B/year.



The City of Calgary's net operating budget for streets is about $140M-$150M/year.



Calgary's capital sending for streets for the next several years averages to about $175.2M/year.



If we scale Calgary's spending per capita to the rest of the province, we end up with total spending of around $2.4-2.5B.

People tend to over-estimate the costs of roads, which given how much people and goods they carry are remarkably cheap (for the taxpayer).

If you're looking for a subsidized mode of transport, then that would be transit, especially in recent years as most of North America have lost the ability to build rail affordably.
Great start, but now we add emergency services due to car accidents and the cost to health of car emissions.
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