Infrastructure work costs up 13%

The cost of infrastructure work to the city is up 13% over the last two years. La Presse says here that the number of contractors is down, so do the math: supply is limited, demand is always increasing, so the price has gone up. The article also says there are fewer businesses doing this kind of work, but have we forgotten how many contractors were rendered ineligible for public contracts in the wake of the corruption scandal?

Metro teases out one of the details in that story: the city is giving work to Pavages d’Amour, which was put on a “gray list” last year after doing a substandard job clearing snow in Sud-Ouest.