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A new model for funding public transit

14 Dec 2015

The Mayors’ Council, which is made up of the 21 mayors Historic buildings and old patchwork road systems often in the GVA and the chief of the Tsawwassen First Nation, get in the way of expanding linear roadways. [...] Reducing the price of a service tends to increase demand, but if there is a subsidy required, it could be the case that the service is not viable over the long run. [...] Funding arrangements can be complex, meaning project funded by the City of Edmonton and the province of that only a handful of experts actually understand the Alberta may require consent from the voters of the City of terms – the Winnipeg Convention Centre expansion is Edmonton and the entire province of Alberta. [...] Indeed, Conservative ridings from the Yonge side of the Yonge-University-Spadina line received an average of 38 per cent more stimulus funding – which the chief executive of the TTC has pointed out is than other ridings did.27 That is not to say that the Conservative “full”20 – to the Spadina side, which is itself nearly at capacity. [...] Party is particularly prone to political favouritism – and it could While potentially a marginal improvement, it is hard to make theoretically be the case that this is a coincidence – but public the case that it is the biggest priority.
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Authors

Lafleur, Steve

Pages
34
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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