Der Infrastrukturminister bestätigt die Kürzung des Transitprogramms um 5 Milliarden US-Dollar und sagt, die Städte hätten Zugang zu anderen Mitteln
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-infrastructure-minister-confirms-cut-canada-public-transit-fund/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Thank god people voted woke austerity to stop the conservative austerity! Seriously though, making our cities double down on the car culture when we should be focused on making transit more reliable to increase ridership, electrifying transit (Go Train should have been electrified years ago for example) and seems like LPC don’t care about addressing transit concerns of cities.
What other funds?
Enabling people to move around without being forced to own a car is a good investment. I fail to see the upside to this.
This is perhaps the most meaningful thing the feds can contribute to in order to improve lives and the environment.
Billions of dollars for international aid but we can’t get an above ground train line built in Calgary.
I work in Toronto and after a month of struggling to get to work this winter; this is very disappointing news!
Transit funding does not need to be cut given the population increase over the past 10 years and the decaying of existing infrastructure.
Guess everyone is being encouraged to drive to work in government subsidized EVs now! Where is the policy coherency?
Cities need a lot more than just property taxes to function. Worked fine a century ago but now it just doesn’t cut it.
This shouldn’t have been a federal responsibility in the first place.
Feds should be investing only in productive interprovincial infrastructure.
So they’re forcing people to go back to the office and they’re cutting transit funding by billions at the same time?
I would have rather seen the EV subsidies not make a comeback if it means cutting funding for transit infrastructure.
The subsidies help the minority of Canadians who can afford a brand new car, transit helps all Canadians especially those lower income brackets. Transit is a long term investment that has a much greater positive impact on the environment.
This was a terribly shortsighted decision.
I hate to see cuts to transit funding, but 1) is this a lot of money? It takes billions to build one rapid transit extension in one city. I’m not sure how much a material impact this will have, though certainly it won’t help. But more than that, what this speaks to is the constant struggle we have in Canada about jurisdictional responsibility, and the political tactic of each level of govt to blame the others for their inability to fund projects. Municipalities and provinces will say they can’t afford to fund transit without federal help, as if they don’t have their own abilities to raise revenue. The federal govt can in turn blame provinces and cities. They can all cry poor, abdicate responsibility and the political blame gets spread out evenly.