General Road and Highway Discussion

[tomh009]

I know a lot of people were pretty cranky with my use of the word corruption in public infrastructure costs, but this is the sort of shit that pops up and blows my mind:

Under the funding agreement announced by Councillor Alejandra Bravo (Davenport) and Julie Dzerowicz, Member of Parliament for Davenport, the Government of Canada will provide $23 million from its Active Transportation Fund (opens in new window), while the City will contribute $125.7 million.

The project will see the existing 2.1-kilometre trail doubled in length, with an additional two kilometres of trail[...]

https://www.toronto.ca/news/city-of-toro...extension/

How is it possible that 2.1km of new pedestrian trail comes out to $150M? $~70k per metre? How does this get approved? Are they replacing all sewer lines within 20km of this path and including it in the budget?

Four pedestrian/cycling bridges are included. Those are surely far more expensive than 2.1 km of MUT.