Transportation infrastructure is greater than the sum of its parts

The Airport Capital Improvement Program is in need of a refresh. The funding envelope has not increased since its inception, yet airports are facing more complex and costly safety and accessibility regulations than in the past.

Over the past year, the Canadian Airports Council and regional aviation associations have come together to call on the government to increase funding under the Airport Capital Improvement Program to $95-million a year. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY DANIEL-ROBERT GOOCH

October 15, 2019

How we describe a trip tells us more about how we experience travel than the actual trip itself. We say we “went to London.” We don’t bother to say we drove our car to the airport, parked, cleared security, got on a pl...

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