A holistic view of transit needed in the national infrastructure assessment

Until the pandemic, public transit was on a roll—the pandemic changed all that. It should also change how the federal government sees transit infrastructure.

Transit isn’t like a road or broadband. A road is there around the clock. Broadband is available whenever. But a transit line is only useful when there’s a bus, or a train, or a subway coming soon, writes Marco D’Angelo.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY MARCO D’ANGELO

October 20, 2021

There’s much talk nowadays about building public transit, electrifying it, and extending it into rural and Indigenous communities. The current government has made potentially transformative steps. It’s announced a permanent transit fund to make capital investments more predictable. It has ambiti...

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