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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
The more I think about this, the more I like it. Feds should be less involved in road building and push wider infrastructure for EV charging, pedestrian and micro-transit options, and most importantly, growing and scaling the public transit networks rapidly in conjunction with the provinces and cities. Trains, trains and more trains, baby.
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How are municipalities and provinces going to pay for massive and very necessary projects like Stoney Trail (the feds pumped in $580M) or improving dated and dangerous sections of the trans Canada highway (like Golden BC) without federal funding which was $215M in this case? Growing cities and towns are going to need new roads and more importantly, improved roads, even if you are improving transit and ride sharing etc at the same time.
This money is going to start coming right out of provincial budgets which just means more cuts to services and likely more reliance on toll roads (yay!) to make up the gaps. Trains work in certain areas, but you're not moving dense populations across very minimal distances in Canada except in a few select regions.