Experts say Ottawa is playing more of a role in housing, which is mostly a provincial and territorial responsibility, but federal involvement hasn’t brought much relief amid rising home prices.

  • oʍʇǝuoǝnu@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    God I wish this would happen. The BCNDP are actually making substantial changes to our legislation but its not enough without major investments into transit infrastructure. Rail corridors need to be reopened/established and active transit projects need to be heavily subsidized.

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      1 year ago

      Heavily subsidized?

      It obviously varies wildly, but a road can cost $1,500k per lane km (NS highway planning figure). A multiuse path costs $10k per km (City of Toronto). That’s 150:1 ratio.

      And that’s just construction, path maintenance is basically just snow clearance, roads are expensive; though maintenance data varies incredibly wildly based on how it’s annualized and traffic volume.

      Make every lane km of road built require the construction of 0.5km of path. Sure, construction costs increase 0.3%, but I’d wager the reduction in car use would see that recovered in maintenance costs (personal guess, not data driven).