The $100 million is around 1 percent of Edmonton's capital budget for roads, with 99 percent going to roads for cars.
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The question it is checked under
How does the money for bike lanes compare with what Edmonton spends on roads?
This claim is checked as part of that question. One brief covers every claim under it, and each claim still gets its own finding.
The investigation's outcomeGoing ahead
Capital budgets and project cost sheets can put the active-transportation allocation beside road spending and test each percentage and project comparison on the same basis.
The same claim as bike-100m-one-percent-of-roads, in different words. It is checked there, so it is not checked twice.
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Where it came from
Taken from Yegscoop post on council's 2026-08-26 bike lane decision, read end to end. Every factual claim in it was extracted and merged, so this one is listed whatever became of it.
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How it was said
Every wording of this claim found in the source, quoted exactly. The names are pseudonyms, one to a person within the source; the number is the comment's place in the captured thread.
we currently spend 99% of our road budget on roads for cars so spending is on track
Cedar Pelican C. · comment 187
why should those 2% of riders pay for the 98% road infrastructure when drivers cry about paying 2% to keep cyclists safe?
Riverside Muskrat A. · comment 189
spending 1% of our budget on transportation that includes >2% of trips is a great investment.
Cedar Pelican C. · comment 295
100 million is less than 1% of the road budget so it's proportionally well spent
Cedar Pelican C. · comment 331
we are getting a great deal spending only 1% of the budget on it
Cedar Pelican C. · comment 333
is around 1% of the capital expansion budget for roads.
Cedar Pelican C. · comment 450