Highway 407: Public to private transition

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

07/29/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

Social sciences

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Summary :

Introduction
The privatization of public enterprise and operations
Construction of the 407 ETR
Privatization of infrastructure projects
Borins and Mylvaganam's view
Canada's ability to balance public and private means of urban mobility
The study of urban gentrification
Transportation alternatives to the 407 ETR
Conclusion
Works cited

Abstract

Alterations to travel flow resulting from urban decentralization is the effect of the increasing size of the city and its level of urbanization, and it reduces traffic volumes between origins and the central destination thereby raising volumes to other destinations. This lowers radial corridor volumes. These changes make serving transport demand with transit systems more costly because transit costs are higher, and transit service levels are lower at lower levels of corridor passenger flows. The increasing costs and decreasing service levels of transit that accompany decentralization lead more travelers in middle- and high-income countries to use private autos, which further lowers transit passenger volume and further degrades transit performance [Ingram 1998, 1024]. Transportation systems prove to be enormously expensive operations, incurring high construction and purchasing costs to control the necessary real estate. If transport is a determinant of land-use development, what impact will the construction of a large transit system have on an existing metropolitan area?

The privatization of public enterprise and operations has been an increasingly popular phenomenon in the neo-liberal age of modern cities. It is prevalent that many political duties are handed over to the private sector to ensure efficiency and sometimes to resurrect its productivity in the ultimate goal: the satisfaction of the public.