Cost estimate for Surrey to Langley extension now is $5.9 billion, up from $3.9 billion
VANCOUVER — The revelation this week that the cost of the Surrey-to-Langley SkyTrain extension has ballooned by 50 per cent reflects a trend, some experts say, that’s been happening across governments: the hollowing out of expertise they need to manage such big projects.
After the award of contracts, the SkyTrain extension is budgeted to cost $5.996 billion, up from the $3.94 billion estimate in December. “It doesn’t matter what political stripe the government is, we’re seeing Conservative governments in Ontario and Alberta facing the same kinds of pressure to build infrastructure,” Fleming said. “The cost has gone up period.”
“So even the capacity of the private sector shrank for this kind of big transit infrastructure,” he said.
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