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REPORT * Canada - Road work lowers infrastructure age; but bridges still deteriorating
Ottawa,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -13 Feb 2008: -- Investments in Canada's bridges and overpasses has been below the level required to hold their age constant -- with Quebec housing the most structures beyond their useful life, according to a report by Stats Canada... The report examines age status and trends in five key public infrastructures -- highways and roads, bridges and overpasses, water supply systems, wastewater treatment facilities and sanitary and storm sewers -- from a provincial perspective and compares average ages with the useful life of each infrastructure... According to the study, the average age of public infrastructure has been falling almost steadily in most provinces for the past seven years, mainly due to large investments in highways and roads in Quebec and Ontario... Canada's highways and road systems makes up 60 percent of all infrastructure... In 2007, the average age of Canada's public infrastructure reached 16.3 years, down from its peak of 17.5 in 2000... (Canada's highways and road systems makes up 60 percent of all infrastructure.)Labels: infrastructures
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