Are we really surprised? Funding deficits are now starting to pile up, and its going to be expensive to get caught up. But yeah, let's spend $72M to redo Olympic Plaza.
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Originally Posted by Mazrim
Looks like Calgary has been in a "treading water" pattern on road rehabilitation for a while based on this tweet from Evan Spencer.
https://twitter.com/user/status/1788659594589606110
In a perfect world, roads get repairs before cracks get bad, or a full depth replacement before the roads are so bad you can't patch them. In the long-term it's way cheaper than waiting for the road to fail. That doesn't happen often because proactive maintenance is generally considered a luxury by those who approve budgets. They probably think short term, and they probably don't tax residents enough to cover all the lane kilometers the city adds every year. That's how you get roads that get really bad and also cost a ton to fix. |