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The Colwood Crawl can be ended in much less time than it took to build the wasteful McTavish Interchange with a cheap McKenzie-Island Highway Interchange roundabout. But that doesnB次元官网网址檛 require as much cement or steel. Hmmm.

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Rail gets nine times more subsidy than buses according to the Bus Riders Union. But the roads are already built. Buses could displace half the cars in less than a year while including dramatic fare reductions B次元官网网址� if they got the funding now heading for the rails.

Larry Wartel

Victoria