Comment 14721

By nobrainer (registered) | Posted November 29, 2007 at 09:58:47

If you live in a $200,000 house in Hamilton you would pay another $12 a year in taxes. The same house in the suburbs would be only $3 or $4 a year, thanks to area rating. If council ended area rating, that is totally unfair to begin with, it would put another $8 million into transit without raising fares.

Speaking of area rating -- Waterdown is getting a new bus line but they don't pay anything in tax toward the HSR.

The system has serious problems and raising fares is not going to fix them. It's just going to drive away more riders, suck more money out of the people who have no choice but to use transit, and free up more money to sink into more highways that aren't creating jobs like we were promised. (The city is saying tax assessment growth will be a big fat zero for 2008. Where did all those Red Hill jobs go?)

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