Driving down Steeles Avenue east from my girlfriend's place reminded me to post this link from CAA's website released last week. The list of the Province's worst roads include eight in found in Toronto alone, topped by my route home today.
Toronto is planning a $10 million resurfacing of Steeles Avenue pending the approval of Federal infrastructure stimulus funding. A hefty $139 million of Toronto's annual budget goes towards road repairs, but they have been suffering from a $300 million roadwork backlog.
This is what it costs to make Toronto's roads drivable (courtesy of The Star):
- $25 Average cost to repair one pothole
- 275,000 Potholes fixed by the city in 2008
- $6 million Cost of pothole repairs annually in Toronto
- $7,000-$10,000 Annual cost of preventative patching, routing and sealing 1 km of new four-lane road
- $110,000 Cost of applying new overlay to the same stretch (year 15, or earlier if the preventative work has been neglected)
- $650,000 Cost of full reconstruction of road (year 20 if neglected; year 40 otherwise)
The cold, unforgiving Canadian winter is coming and these conditions will surely get worse. This doesn't look good, Toronto.
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