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City scraps downtown pedestrian bridge project in Guelph Ontario. (www.guelphtoday.com)
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Months after cancelling the construction contract for a new downtown pedestrian bridge in the face of “unforeseen challenges,” city officials have called off the project altogether.

As stated in a post on the city’s website on Friday, plans to build a bridge over the Speed River connecting The Ward with Downtown Guelph have been scrapped. Instead, city officials will look for ways to include pedestrian flow into another nearby project over the river.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nobody profits (maybe shoemakers) when you walk across a bridge. Oil companies, car companies, tire companies, insurance companies, mechanics, they all profit a little if you drive across the bridge.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Your right, its sad because its true.

But when people walk across a pedestrian bridge society profits. Healthier population both physically and mentally. Greater happiness and less stress. Less pollution, pretty much all these benefits put less "burden" on peoples pockets financially, either both directly and indirectly through taxs.

Unfortunately probably all hard to quantify though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Saving isn't the same as profit. Saving is much more beneficial, but our society is focused on profit.