As infrastructure crumbles, councillors warn, transportation committee approves 2018 budget

That Ottawa’s transportation committee passed its draft 2018 budget on Wednesday virtually as presented was hardly a surprise — such thing is de rigueur inside Mayor Jim Watson’s city hall.
Of note, however, was the virtually unanimous view that the condition of roads across the national capital is crappy — and getting crappier.
Committee chair Keith Egli: “There’s no question city roads need work.”
Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans: “I’