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BC Transportation Budget - A matter of scale

03/02/10

Permalink 04:51:14 pm, by edoherty Email , 185 words   English (CA)
Categories: Gateway, Environment, BC Politics, Oil & Gas

BC Transportation Budget - A matter of scale

Well, here we go again. Another budget, another step towards cooking our only planet.

With apologies to WorldWatch Magazine, which has a 'matter of scale' section in every edition here is my quickie analysis:

BC Transportation Budget 2010-11 A matter of scale:

Total Provincial Roadway Expenditures $860 million
Total Provincial Transit Plan $173 million
Gateway Program – Lower Mainland $128 million
Oil and Gas Roads Improvement Program $51 million
Cycling Infrastructure $3 million
Sidewalk Program $0
(The word 'sidewalk' does not appear in the document)

Roads to transit and cycling ratio 4.8:1

Roads to cycling ratio 287:1

Roads to sidewalk ratio Infinite

Transit (Province Wide) to Gateway ratio 1.4:1

Source: Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure 2010/11 2012/13 Service Plan ‘Transportation Investments’ table P 30
http://www.bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2010/sp/pdf/ministry/trans.pdf

Photo by Eric Doherty: Many streets in BC do not have any sidewalks at all, even in school zones

So how far do you think the Ministry will get towards meeting these goals?

Goal 3: Reduction of greenhouse gas for the transportation sector

Objective 3.1: Increase use of transit, cycling and other alternative modes of personal transportation

Great time for a letter to the editor!

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it's worth noting that we really have no idea how much the south fraser perimeter road could cost, and that property acquisition before anything is even built (hundreds of properties totaling in the hundreds of millions to buy/expropriate) is apparently not counted as part of the transportation investment.
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