Can Money For Road Repairs Be Diverted California

Scott Fielding revived his campaign against bus rapid transit this morning, calling on the public to demand coin exist spent on roads instead.

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Scott Fielding revived his campaign confronting bus rapid transit this morning, calling on the public to demand money exist spent on roads instead.

Fielding, the St. James-Brooklands councillor who no longer lives in the ward, said the $600 meg set aside for the second stage of the charabanc rapid transit corridor would be amend spent on road repairs, new roads and expressways.

"As a city nosotros demand to prioritize how we're spending coin," Fielding said at a news conference held aslope the railway tracks that cross Waverley Street. "There isn't money to practise everything."

Fielding launched an online petition at his website, scottfielding.ca, and said he's asking the public to tell "the politicians, insiders at city hall that we demand to address infrastructure, brand that our number one priority."

Fielding said he doesn't oppose rapid transit, just that he believes Winnipeg should have other priorities.

Fielding has never supported funding rapid transit and voted confronting both the first and 2d phases of the corridor.

Fielding said the $600 million for the 2nd phase of the rapid transit corridor, which also includes replacing the Jubilee underpass and extensive drainage piece of work, could actually climb higher with unexpected costs associated relocation of runway lines along the corridor.

Mayor Sam Katz told council Wednesday that it'southward unknown whether rail lines need to be relocated to accommodate the expansion of the rapid transit corridor. Yet, Katz said Winnipeg's share of the project would remain at $225 meg, with Ottawa and the province picking up the outstanding costs.

Fielding released a list of infrastructure projects which he said could all be done for the $600 million earmarked for the expansion of the rapid transit corridor, including:

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• Waverley Underpass, $160 million;
• Kenaston Boulevard widening, Ness-Taylor, $129 million;
• Chief Peguis Trail extension, Main-McPhillips, $110 million;
• Chief Peguis Trail extension, McPhillips-Route 90, $130 million;
• Edward Schreyer Parkway, Plessis-Chief Peguis, $60 million;
• William R. Clement Parkway, Grant-Wilkes, $60 million.

Fielding described bus rapid transit equally a "mega-project" the metropolis cannot afford while its existing roads are crumbling.

"Nosotros need to prioritize to fix existing and (build) needed infrastructure before nosotros look at other mega-projects."

Fielding, who was the urban center's finance chairman for six years, has said he won't run for re-ballot in St. James, as he no longer lives in that location just suggested he could be running for mayor in October or take a stab every bit PC candidate in the adjacent provincial election.

Recent public opinion polling shows Fielding has little support if he did run for mayor.

A Free Press poll in Dec institute Fielding drew half dozen per cent support for mayor, the same result as some other media poll in February.

aldo.santin@freepress.mb.ca

Can Money For Road Repairs Be Diverted California,

Source: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Fielding-says-rapid-transit-money-should-be-diverted-to-road-repair-252681521.html

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