posted on November 05, 2008

Road repairs in the slow lane

City budgets $173M to repair 420 km of roads and 80 bridges next year, but critics say it's not enough

By: BRYN WEESE
Published: 31st October 2008
Source: Toronto Sun

The city's teeth-chattering roads will get worse before they get better, despite the fact that the city is poised to spend $1.626 billion in 2009 on capital projects.

In fact, Toronto won't begin to make headway on its road repair backlog for another eight years.

The proposed 2009 capital budget was released yesterday, as was a spending plan for the next four years and -- for the first time ever -- a 10-year spending forecast, which will have to survive three municipal elections.

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