Road design, transportation and walkability

[ijmorlan]

Cutting a project like this would single handedly solve our budget problems.

Fiscal conservatives should be all over this.

Fiscal conservatives aren't necessarily anti-active transportation.

That said, there are no fiscally conservative political parties in Canada today.

I think his point is that not building the bridge would save a ton of money, but that the idea of not building a road bridge is essentially inconceivable to the people who could make that decision.

If I understand correctly, the planned bridge will actually have pretty good bicycle infrastructure (although probably not as good as it should be), but about 90% of the cost is probably due to the road part.