Comment 65077

By Inhocmark (registered) | Posted June 22, 2011 at 23:35:33 in reply to Comment 65066

Okay that came off defensive. It was more agreeing with your point but saying that the 'burbs and the counsellors do tend to get the blame when projects like this are slowed up.

I think most people are reasonable, everybody hates taxes but understands the need for them, provided they see a tangible results for the money spent, not only in the lower city, but right outside their own door as well. The issue right now, at least for me in my ward is that each quarter I see a transit levy on my tax bill and it pisses me off. I can get 1 bus that will only take me to a Burlington GO station and can only get that bus during rush hour. You approach any sane individual and say 'we need to raise taxes for an LRT system' when the current system doesn't even begin to address their specific needs of course you're going to have backlash.

At least from my perspective, if you want to have more support for LRT, especially in outlying areas, the city and the transit authority have to show us that our public transit needs matter too, right now all it feels like is my taxes are going to pay for somebody else's route.

I don't even need the tripling of service. Give me 1 bus that does a complete loop from Waterdown to Downtown 7 days a week, or even make the #18 Waterdown a full route and give us some way to get downtown from a centralized point (ie. Aldershot GO) and me personally I'm a happy camper and would probably be a lot more agreeable to the idea of LRT.

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