"Whatever it costs, it's too expensive!"
"And we haven't even looked at the price tag. Whatever the cost, one thing is clear,"
"The money [spent on bike lanes] would be far better spent fixing our roads."
"I don't know what it costs and I don't care what it costs but I'll make a broad conclusion based on that lack of knowledge or interest..."
Leslie Roberts, a Montreal City Council candidate, opposed spending on bike lanes and insisted that the money would be better spent fixing roads. Roberts stated that costs had not been examined and expressed indifference to price details. Roberts won the downtown district seat despite that stance. The position was characterized as a broad conclusion reached without cost information. A Canada-based group called "Oh The Urbanity" created a video presenting actual bike lane cost figures and concluded that the expenditures are relatively small. The video challenges the claim that bike lanes are prohibitively expensive.
Read at Streetsblog
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