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Old Posted Mar 3, 2017, 7:03 PM
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My question is, if the project was built and funded completely by the province (ie, not P3), how much would the province be "losing" when accounting for all costs (ie debt and interest payments)? Will it be higher or lower than with P3? In my opinion, the question isn't whether the bridge needed to be replaced, but rather, whether P3 was the appropriate option. This is something we (the province) can learn from before deciding on the next bridge to build.
Simple question indeed.
To get the answer for the port mann bridge, hopefully the answer is publicly available without a FOI:
http://www.partnershipsbc.ca/project...ement-project/
https://www.bcauditor.com/
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No two projects are identical, and there are unknown future differences like the banks financing the Golden Ears bridge P3 went bankrupt during construction but were bailed out by their own governments before it caused too much trouble.

For the Port Mann bridge, they changed to BC borrowing and then lending the money instead of banks in 2009 and claimed doing so saved $200 million. After the project was completed it was supposed to transition back to private financing.

Interest rates for private infrastructure-backed borrowers may be lower today as neither inflation nor growth has been sighted, but they could diverge significantly at any time in the future.

The auditor general's website search function didn't turn up a review of the Port Mann project to show financing costs.


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It's still a small time span and small sample of projects to compare the public vs p3 projects but in general the P3 will finish on time, and hit their budget. While public projects are within 10% of budget and schedule. If private financing is used, the public option finishes cheaper (compound interest on not just the multi-year construction, but covering the higher borrowing rate for the lifetime of the payback period.)

However as we have seen with the Port Mann bridge, sometimes the schedule or budget is met by eliminating de-icing gear from the design. The split of obligations is point by point and adversarial, but it shouldn't be an issue if it was all planned for and expected.

It's important to remember that the work is done by the same cluster of smaller contractors. Short of believing there is significant waste in the decision for what each sub-contractor is worth paying, P3s supposedly earn their keep in design + financing. IMO P3s are a political tool to say the budget is balanced, and are preferred despite when the public/other option results in better value.

related: Vaughn Palmer: The fine art of dissecting debt from contractual obligations
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In terms of traffic though, wouldn't it be expected that a 10 lane bridge would induce significant demand? And with expansion only going as far as 17a and certainly not continuing down Oak Street do we not think this newly induced demand will cause any bottlenecks there? Seems like the bridges growth room is virtually all for Richmond and the Port as well as 17a, which is not a problem, I'm just surprised if the proportion of drivers from South Surrey going to Vancouver and Vice-Versa is that small?
10 lanes without a toll absolutely would. You can't overstate the lengths Metro Vancouver drivers will go to avoid a small toll though.

The current PMB (basically free flowing all the time) has less traffic than the old one did near the end of it's life, when it was essentially a parking lot 12 hours a day.
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Procurement Options Report (Aug 2015)
http://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/...t-Aug-2015.pdf


GMT Tunnel Decommissioning Options Report (Feb 2017)
http://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/...s-Feb-2017.pdf


From the January 2017 Project Status Report:


http://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/...port-FINAL.pdf

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If it's supposed to be congested by 2045, why build the bridge for a 100 year spec? Why not stop at 50 years (giving time for a replacement?)
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Old Posted Mar 4, 2017, 12:09 AM
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Because there's no guarantee it would be replaced in 2045 or sooner after (think Patullo).

PS - you know that when you quote a post you can delete some of the content so you don't clog up the thread with useless repetition, right?
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Because there's no guarantee it would be replaced in 2045 or sooner after (think Patullo)
If the bridge is completed by 2020, it would have until 2070 to be replaced...

25 years from being congested. PLENTY of time.
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Why are we designing anything to be congested at all?
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Why are we designing anything to be congested at all?
Because otherwise we would have 20 lane bridges...
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How do these projections match the ones above that don't see an increase in daily volume from today's GMT to a tolled GMB in 2045?
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Old Posted Mar 4, 2017, 7:12 AM
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How do these projections match the ones above that don't see an increase in daily volume from today's GMT to a tolled GMB in 2045?
Dunno, different projection models?

Keep in mind, this is government figures, so it's going to be biased towards their agenda.
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Footings for George Massey Tunnel replacement bridge will hold firm, says ministry
- See more at: http://www.delta-optimist.com/news/f....igBX1UVz.dpuf


Ministry Fact Sheet: Can a bridge be built on a river delta?
- See more at: http://www.delta-optimist.com/news/m....ZVIpnqDf.dpuf
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The congestion you see today on Highway 1 eastbound between just east of 200th and in between 208th will be replicated on Highway 99 and Highway 91 once that highway improvement project is finished. As we all know on 1 eastbound you got traffic merging from 200th and further up the HOV ends at 208th. So we know what that mess is. So when the new HOV lane will end at the 91 interchange you'll have the same mess with the HOV ending and cars trying to merge on 99 south from the 91. Let the fun begin.
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So there was supposed to be a groundbreaking ceremony today but it was crashed by protesters. I didn't realize that the project was far along enough for a groundbreaking ceremony!
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So there was supposed to be a groundbreaking ceremony today but it was crashed by protesters. I didn't realize that the project was far along enough for a groundbreaking ceremony!
It is when there's an election next month.

Poor Todd couldn't take the heat... they moved the "ceremony" indoors and wouldn't let the protesters in.

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So there was supposed to be a groundbreaking ceremony today but it was crashed by protesters. I didn't realize that the project was far along enough for a groundbreaking ceremony!
The groundbreaking ceremony still happened.
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Protestors crashed Wednesday's ground breaking ceremony in Delta for $3.5 billion tunnel replacement project. | Photo: Chung Chow

Liberal government breaks ground on Massey bridge
By Nelson Bennett | April 5, 2017, 12:59 p.m.

https://www.biv.com/article/2017/4/l...massey-bridge/
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They've started cutting down trees on the west side of 99 between Westminster HWY and Steveston HWY. What was the reason for acquiring the golf course property? There's still more land south of it that doesn't look like it's been acquired?
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So there was supposed to be a groundbreaking ceremony today but it was crashed by protesters. I didn't realize that the project was far along enough for a groundbreaking ceremony!
It was a ground-breaking for the "project" but all that is awarded at this time is the 2 early work contracts. Main contract should be awarded in June...
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