{"id":3925,"date":"2024-03-21T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2024-03-21T08:22:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T12:22:58","slug":"the-cost-of-public-transit-projects-quebec-must-do-better-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpp.hec.ca\/en\/the-cost-of-public-transit-projects-quebec-must-do-better-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Public Transit Projects: Quebec Must Do Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Quebec government is planning huge public transit projects for the coming years, a 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

\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

Although the Quebec government has already announced that it intends to create an agency for major transportation projects in order to manage the execution of large public transit projects, the author has doubts about how it will work. \u201cThe agency is being welcomed by many of the parties involved. But caution is necessary. We may well wind up with the same team of experts who oversee the current projects and who are unable to deliver the goods,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

The costs of public transit projects are rising so rapidly around the world that it is becoming urgent to seek ways of reducing these expenses, by drawing on best practices. Among the possible solutions proposed in the study, the HEC Montr\u00e9al researcher suggests the requirement to improve the first project phases, i.e. the launch and planning, and to react more quickly during project execution so as to limit the risk of exploding costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Quebec the real problem is that we seem to be unable to correctly identify needs beforehand. Take, for example, the 3rd<\/sup> link for Quebec City. The government abandoned the idea after suggesting different ways of connecting the two shores, without ever publishing studies showing the need for this project in the first place,\u201d notes Roy.<\/p>\n

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To read more : Roy, Jacques, Co\u00fbt des projets de transport collectif au Qu\u00e9bec : peut-on faire mieux ?<\/a>, Centre for Productivity and Prosperity (CPP) \u2013 Walter J. Somers Foundation, HEC Montr\u00e9al, March 2024 (in french only)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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