Comment 14737

By nobrainer (registered) | Posted November 29, 2007 at 12:53:52

What happened to downtown is a boat anchor? Now you're changing you're argument. It's easy to get better service to the suburbs, just end area rating so there's enough money to improve service. You can't improve the service until you get the money to do it. And Talk about unfair, people in waterdown aren't paying ANYTHING toward transit even though a new bus line is going there.

Also people who don't want to live in an urban environment dont' have to but they should be prepared to pay the real price of living out in the burbs. Like I wrote earlier the servicing fees on suburban houses are not enough to cover the cost of servicing, so downtown taxpayers are SUBSIDIZING the cost for you to live in the suburbs. That's not fair.

Speaking of servicing fees check out nicole mcintyre's site today. I can't post a link in this comment but theres a link on RTH called All Voters are Equal... that links to it. Council was going to raise servicing fees on new houses so they're actually enough to pay for servicing. Then a SINGLE LETTER came into council from the Home Builders Association and they voted to defer THAT decision, but not to defer the transit hike even though they got a hundred letters or more about that one.

So much for being fare, i mean fair.

Also public transit is like public education - it benefits everyone not just people with children. It means less air pollution, less greenhouse gas, less traffic. If you're an employer and your city has great transit you don't have to provide as much parking for your employees or customers. People who don't have to buy a car (or second car or third car or...) have more money to spend locally which benefits the economy.

Fixing Hamilton's problems is a no-brainer

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