{"id":40357,"date":"2025-05-26T21:48:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T01:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=40357"},"modified":"2025-05-26T21:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T01:48:24","slug":"how-canada-could-building-transit-affordably-like-other-countries-national-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=40357","title":{"rendered":"How Canada could building transit affordably \u2014 like other countries | National Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/transit-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">How Canada Wins: We are spending too much for too little transit, according to a new report. Here&#8217;s what we could do differently<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/how-canada-could-building-transit-affordably-like-other-countries\">How Canada could building transit affordably \u2014 like other countries | National Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cDeveloped nations such as Italy, Turkey, Sweden, Finland, Spain and South Korea deliver transit projects comparable to those in Canada at as low as one-tenth the price per kilometre,\u201d the research states. \u201cOur study contends that high transit construction costs are not an inevitability; rather, they are the result of a project delivery regime antithetical to global best practices.\u201d\u00a0 This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;They will need a collective effort from the industry to be less insular and look less at the United States, which is the curse of Canada, because the Americans are absolutely terrible at handling large projects. So we really should forget about the Americans and look at everybody else, whether it\u2019s Europe, Asia or any other place. There\u2019s not a single thing, but it\u2019s really being curious about what the others do.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Canada Wins: We are spending too much for too little transit,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,1680,1895],"class_list":["post-40357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-hsr","tag-transit","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40360,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40357\/revisions\/40360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}