In a Toronto area park, a small stair case was necessary to climb up to the sidewalk.  A resident complained to his city representative's office, the park's dept engineering department suggested it would cost approx $100,000+ to build to City of Toronto standard.  Same resident takes up a collection and builds a serviceable stair case for $600.  City comes along, takes it down and replaces it with a $10,000 version.  Probably slightly better but not sure it should be 15 times more expensive.

Before we start collecting money for infrastructure, perhaps we should try and reign in municipal, provincial and federal costs first?  At this moment, we never seem to get much of deal price wise.  Maybe Amazon should get into the gov't procurement business?