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Hi all,This blurb was in the current edition of the Business in Vancouver (a weekly newspaper):
Thumbs Down: to the failing grades that BC has scored on the goods movement and people transportation fronts.
A recent Fraser Institute study comparing transportation and infrastructure in the country`s 10 provinces found that BC and Newfoundland have Canada`s works transportation systems. Ontario has the best.
The study, written by David Hartgen, emeritus professor of transportation studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, compared such factors as use, accessibility, cost and safety. It ranked BC last in Canada for passenger transportation. The ranking was based on what the report said was "high levels of congestion, long commuting times, high accident rates and the cost of [BC`s] road system." It also pointed out that the province has the country`s most expensive transit system and only average percapita use.
Meanwhile, Get Moving BC released a comparative study in September of four major Western Canadian cities that found Metro Vancouver to be dead last when it comes to bridge infrastructure.
The province needs to do a better job of moving people and goods effectively and efficiently or BC will never achieve more than a bit-player status on the world`s economic stage.
Keth
Thumbs Down: to the failing grades that BC has scored on the goods movement and people transportation fronts.
A recent Fraser Institute study comparing transportation and infrastructure in the country`s 10 provinces found that BC and Newfoundland have Canada`s works transportation systems. Ontario has the best.
The study, written by David Hartgen, emeritus professor of transportation studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, compared such factors as use, accessibility, cost and safety. It ranked BC last in Canada for passenger transportation. The ranking was based on what the report said was "high levels of congestion, long commuting times, high accident rates and the cost of [BC`s] road system." It also pointed out that the province has the country`s most expensive transit system and only average percapita use.
Meanwhile, Get Moving BC released a comparative study in September of four major Western Canadian cities that found Metro Vancouver to be dead last when it comes to bridge infrastructure.
The province needs to do a better job of moving people and goods effectively and efficiently or BC will never achieve more than a bit-player status on the world`s economic stage.
Keth
