Comment 99208

By arienc (registered) | Posted March 27, 2014 at 09:05:00

This fiscal conservative agrees with the evidence you present.

The arguments typically presented by opponents to cycling infrastructure are not about conserving anything other than the Western world's largest entitlement program: mass motoring.

The same people that criticise spending $1 million to create opportunity where it is needed downtown won't blink an eyeball at spending $21 million on a single intersection to make things easier for a few, mostly out of town motorists.

Based on latest stats from 2009/10, Canadian governments collected $15.5 billion from taxes and licensing fees and spent $29 billion on roads. That's a deficit of $13.5 billion which has increased dramatically over the past 10 years.

"First they built the road, then they built the town. That's why we're still driving around and around, and all we see. Are kids in buses. Longing to be free." - Wasted Hours, The Arcade Fire

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