Cycling in Waterloo Region

[tomh009]

$3M per lane⋅km is cheap—the North American average for highway-grade lanes is around $4M, from what I have read.

It's $3M per lane-km when pricing in both the new and existing lanes (640 / 18 / 12). While that does cover rebuilding some existing lanes, which I acknowledge is occasionally necessary maintenance, maintenance alone wouldn't cost anywhere close to $640M. So IMO it's more accurate to view the cost of the project as $6M per added lane-km, as only a negligible amount of the total is attributable to the existing lanes.

Whether $3M, $4M or $6M, the point is that it is far more expensive than active transportation infrastructure.