Port Mann P3 scuttled by Victoria over lack of private finance

The B.C. Liberal government has ditched plans to build the new Port Mann bridge crossing through a so-called public-private partnership (P3) and will now finance the project directly. That's a dramatic reversal for...

Macquarie signals huge losses day after P3 mega-bridge announced

Just a day after the B.C. Liberal government announced plans to supersize the new Port Mann bridge crossing comes news that the project's private partner is facing major write-downs on its other infrastructure...

$3Billion Port Mann - bridging the super highway

Its reported now that the new "twinning" of the Port Mann bridge will cost $3billion -twice as much as previously specified. Mainly due to the fact that now the twinning will become a 10 lane superhighway. Ring...

P3 financing for Port Mann bridge uncertain

A plan to privately finance the twinning of the Port Mann Bridge and widen Highway 1 through a public-private partnership (P3) appears to be on shaky ground. The Australian financial partner in the scheme -- the...

VancouverIAM Daily Blog Report: Ladner Decries "Sloganeering" at Meeting, Can...

This is a selection of recent popular blog articles from VancouverIAM where you will find the best blogs from Vancouver, British Columbia as well as video uploads, social networking, rumors, and blog authoring. “Angry Sloganeering” De-rails Norquay Village...

Trucks on the Port Mann

The recent Vancouver Sun editorial (“Gateway is important for our future economic well-being” March 22nd) repeated the big lie that Highway One expansion is necessary to accommodate truck traffic volumes. In actual fact only 10% of the traffic on the Port Mann bridge...

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