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New Environmental Reports Demonstrate Link between Added Highway Capacity and Lower GHGs

April 3, 2007 - As all sectors do their part to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, fears have been raised that added highway capacity may lead to greater greenhouse gas emissions, since greater capacity would encourage greater personal vehicle use. Not so, says a new Conference Board of Canada report - in fact, new survey data suggests no link between more greater highway capacity and vehicle demand. Furthermore, a new study by McElhanney Consultants of Surrey, BC demonstrates that greenhouse gases are at their highest in stop-and-go traffic, and that faster traffic flows would help lower GHG emissions.

The shortfall in funding to maintain, renew and expand Canada's highway networks (including bridges) to an acceptable engineering standard as identified by federal, provincial and territorial Transport Ministers is as follows:

Canadians experience the impact of this funding shortfall on a daily basis - greater congestion; greater risks to health and safety; reduced tourism potential; greater environmental hazards; longer line ups at border crossings, and an overall deterioration in the quality of life for Canadians.

Welcome to TRIP Canada....

The Road and Infrastructure Program of Canada (TRIP Canada) is a special Committee of the Canadian Construction Association. Created by CCA in 1982 under the name “The Road Information Program of Canada”, its name was changed in 1998 to “The Road & Infrastructure Program of Canada” (TRIP Canada) in recognition of a broader mandate.

TRIP Canada represents the ten provincial roadbuilding and heavy construction associations from across Canada, as well as the Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction Association. Its primary mandate is to lobby the federal government on matters of importance to the roadbuilding and heavy construction sector. At the top of those priorities lies federal government investment in core municipal infrastructure and investment in a National Highway Program.

These objectives are reflected in TRIP’s mission statement:

To persuade the federal, provincial and municipal governments that long term, enhanced, and sustainable funding strategies are necessary to address the national highways system and core municipal infrastructure investment deficits, in order that appropriate levels of public safety and economic productivity be achieved; and

To persuade Canadians that a well maintained infrastructure is essential to Canada’s economic prosperity, thereby providing governments the necessary revenues with which to maintain and enhance for public benefit, healthcare, education and social safety net programs.

However, TRIP Canada, through the Roadbuilders and Heavy Construction Council of the Canadian Construction Association, also works on a host of other files of interest to the roadbuilding and heavy construction sector.

On this site, you can learn more about TRIP Canada, its members, and the issues that it is addressing. For more information about TRIP Canada and its activities, contact us at 613-236-9455, or via email at info@tripcanada.org.

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