2012 is an unusal year as 340m$ of additional (ie. more than typical) road and sewer renewal projects have been funded for implementation in a compressed timeframe of 2012 to 2014.    These accelerated projects are those which would originally have been implemented over a longer (2012-2017) time frame.   The intention is that there would be little to no road works undertaken in 2015-2017 while the LRT is under construction.

The 340m$ accelerated transportation related expenditures includes expenditures of up to 18m$ on cycling and 4m$ on sidewalks.