Vaughn Palmer: Fudging highway cost overruns by applying curious math

Credit to Author: Stephen Snelgrove| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:53:12 +0000

OPINION: Despite assurances, the transportation ministry announced Thursday the projected cost had overshot the two-year-old estimate by almost a third. The $450 million has now become $601 million. Why?

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Fudging highway cost overruns by applying curious math to CBA's impact

Credit to Author: Stephen Snelgrove| Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2019 04:06:20 +0000

OPINION: Despite assurances, the transportation ministry announced Thursday the projected cost had overshot the two-year-old estimate by almost a third. The $450 million has now become $601 million. Why?

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Horgan, NDP feeling heat from taxi industry over ride-hailing decision

Credit to Author: Stephen Snelgrove| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 02:38:38 +0000

OPINION: Premier Horgan’s letter to the Passenger Transportation Board, like the minister’s, left no doubt the New Democrats are feeling political heat from the powerful and well connected taxi industry

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Pipeline politics of trying to find help for B.C. drivers at the pumps

Credit to Author: Stephen Snelgrove| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 01:00:18 +0000

OPINION: “We need more gasoline to meet the demand in the marketplace. I’ve said, and I will say directly to the prime minister that you own the pipeline. Get some gasoline into that pipeline so that we can relieve pressure into the Lower Mainland.”

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