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Road budget->transit/cycle/wlk

Category: Transportation
Responses: 1 (1 in support, 0 neutral, 0 in opposition)
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Redirect a percentage of the City’s road budget to public transit, cycling and walking/pathway.

Ottawa Community Forum Report, Dec 28 2007

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