{"id":3921,"date":"2024-03-21T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/?p=3921"},"modified":"2024-03-21T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T12:24:00","slug":"the-cost-of-public-transit-projects-quebec-must-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/the-cost-of-public-transit-projects-quebec-must-do-better\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Public Transit Projects: Quebec Must Do Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>Montr\u00e9al, March 21, 2024<\/strong> \u2013 While the Quebec government is planning huge public transit projects for the coming years, a <a href=\"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/PP-2023-04.pdf\">report<\/a> by the Centre for Productivity and Prosperity \u2013 Walter J. Somers Foundation (CPP) published today shows that the tens of billions of dollars invested are not always fully justified, and that these projects do not comply with internationally recognized best practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany large public transit projects in Quebec experience significant failures because of governance issues and poor planning,\u201d says Jacques Roy, Professor in the Department of Logistics and Operations Management at HEC Montr\u00e9al, the author of the study. \u201cWhether they are in Montr\u00e9al, Quebec City or Gatineau, Quebeckers have every right to be concerned. Take the REM project, for example: the first phase was delivered three years late and at a cost evaluated at close to $8\u00a0billion, 45% more than the initial budget.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><div ><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/Communique_PP-2023-04_VA.pdf\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Read press release<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-room","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3934,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions\/3934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}