12-20-2016, 01:02 PM
Trying to find actual information about subsidies of roads and found this: http://www.conferenceboard.ca/topics/ene...cture.aspx
It found that between 65-85% (depending on methodology) of road infrastructure costs are recovered from road users. They also have an interesting section on "Non-Infrastructure Costs".
On a side note, I found this report from: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada...subsidized which is just another example of an opinion piece pretending to report on facts. Notice how they call out: "If we look at the total cost of driving, including vehicle costs, cost recovery will tend to be closer to 100 per cent". Which is just silly. It's a direct quote from the report, but leaves out the context where its pointed out that for a policy making perspective we don't care about things like vehicle costs because they're obviously borne directly by the users.
It found that between 65-85% (depending on methodology) of road infrastructure costs are recovered from road users. They also have an interesting section on "Non-Infrastructure Costs".
On a side note, I found this report from: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada...subsidized which is just another example of an opinion piece pretending to report on facts. Notice how they call out: "If we look at the total cost of driving, including vehicle costs, cost recovery will tend to be closer to 100 per cent". Which is just silly. It's a direct quote from the report, but leaves out the context where its pointed out that for a policy making perspective we don't care about things like vehicle costs because they're obviously borne directly by the users.