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WINNIPEG — City council’s public works committee has approved a plan to spend another $3 million on Winnipeg’s active-transportation program.
The city needs $3 million more to pay for components of the 36-project bike-and-pedestrian upgrade that do not qualify for provincial and federal funding.
Under a 2009 infrastructure-stimulus agreement, all three levels of government had agreed to equally share the cost of what originally was a $20.4-million project but then increased in scope to $21.8 million, public works director Brad Sacher told councillors this morning.
The additional $3 million stems from unforeseen route-building costs that include “Manitoba Hydro services, City of Winnipeg traffic services, City of Winnipeg traffic signals, property costs, additional engineering consultant costs and contract over-expenditures,” project manager Bill Woroby wrote in a report to the commitree.
While the city managed to bring in some of the projects under budget, it can’t transfer federal and provincial money between projects. As a result, the net shortfall on the active-transportation upgrade is $3 million, Woroby concluded.
“The city always gets screwed,” said St. Boniface Coun. Dan Vandal, the committee chairman.
To complete the active-transportation program, council is being asked to divert $1 million from a dormant portion of a Kenaston Underpass project and approve $2 million in funding from the 2011 capital budget.
The Kenaston money is dormant because of the ongoing Kapyong Barracks redevelopment stalemate, while the 2011 money could eat up a large chunk of next year’s active-transportation budget.
The money will be used to complete five out of six projects that have been delayed until 2011 because property negotiations or public consultations took longer than expected. Those projects are the Sherbrook/Maryland Bikeway, the St. Matthews Bikeway, the Seine River multi-use path, an Omand Park path and the Bannatyne/McDermot Bikeway,
The sixth delayed project, a multi-use path alongside Laghimodiere Boulevard, has funding that precedes the infrastructure-stimulus agreement, Sacher said.