Climate change causing a rash of potholes? Who knew? Gas taxes being siphoned off into general revenue for cash-strapped provincial governments has nothing to do with the sorry state of Canadian roads, right? All that’s missing from this article is the advocacy of high speed rail.
“We need to look at the roads to last, because there is no magic pot of money that is going to give us hundreds of millions of dollars for road rehabilitation,” said Steve Goodman, an Ottawa-based pavement expert with Gemtec Consulting Engineers and Scientists Ltd. “The funding deficit is not a couple million dollars — or even a couple hundred million dollars — it is in the billions.”
Yep…a Quick drive down Deerfoot trail mirrors that.
The city has a surplus – what does Mayor Goneduck wanna do..?
Spend 80 Billion on her Climate Emergency.
We truly need a PURGE..
As do many cities electorate, Calgarians seem to have a soft spot for mayors with a socialist bent. The money being squandered on pet environmental projects is leaving a hole in funding for critical infrastructure and disaster response. We really are all in this together.
The Globalists have had their tentacles into municipalities, cities, towns and villages for eons.
It’s getting very late.
Maybe too late.
I ride my bike into downtown Calgary very early in the morning on weekends. The number of insane, drugged out, passed out people is growing. I wrote councillors in the area and asked them to do something, but get no reply. The number of regressives on council is growing… The pronoun people, the #climatecult are in charge. We must run candidates to get them out.
I’ve noticed a boarded-up broken window actually on the courthouse downtown. That’s getting cheeky.
Government can spend billions funding urban rail programs that nobody rides while the rural poor have no public transportation whatsoever. I’m not saying the provinces should get into the bus business because we know that costs get out of control with government operations. I was never sure why bus companies didn’t make money on freight alone. Every Greyhound in Alberta used to have a big trailer for freight. A subsidy per passenger per km open to anyone should not have an outrageous cost and provide a semblance of service that urban subsidies provide. Mind you, what killed the bus business in Canada is the RCMP wouldn’t stop Chinese guys from cutting people’s heads off.
Imagine potholes in Timmins. It’s an easy problem to solve. Now imagine potholes in Thompson, Manitoba once the mines have shut down. Do you fix those or the ones in Winnipeg where the taxpayers live?
California … America’s wealthiest State, with the MOST cars and trucks, and the highest registration fees, and the highest gas taxes, has the absolute WORST roads in America! The worst … by far. And it’s intentional. And the people just TAKE IT. I suppose it will finally change when the potholes and uneven pavements rip holes in the bottoms of those shiny new Teslas … starting a runaway battery fire that immolates a family of small children. Until then … the gas taxes just keep getting diverted to a “high speed” train to nowhere.
Global Warming has nothing whatsoever to do with it
California’s best days are behind it. There really was a California state of mind once upon a time, now it’s a state of decay. Sad.
If it got warmer we’d have fewer potholes
No policy is accidental: if the roads suck because there are too many cars and heavy trucks and the gov’t says it’s out of money, well then, pay higher fees and reduce the number and weight of the vehicles.
No word on road and bridge maintenance under the increased weight of electric vehicles.. It will matter in the long run..