Calgary city council has decided that charging transit riders $3.00 to park their cars at park-n-ride lots at train stations is a good idea, because it will raise $6 million per year. Of course, with increasing fares, it will now cost a commuter $8 per day. Now, admittedly parking costs downtown are significantly higher than this, but a lot of people who take transit may find paying an additional $60 per month for transit (assuming 20 working days) is pretty steep.
Do you think this is going to make more people want to take the train?
2 comments
Powell Lucas says:
19 November 2008 at 21:52 (UTC -7 )
Calgary has gone nuts with its wild and reckless spending. That’s one of the reasons I got out. They are willing to spend millions on fancy pedestrian bridges and a new health club for city employees, but when the citizen’s object the first thing the mayor threatens is to cut essential services like police, fireman, and paramedics. At the same time, Calgary has the highest tax rate for small businesses of any major city in Canada. Bronconnier has become a walking advertisement for a tax and spend Liberal.
Billy Jack says:
20 November 2008 at 9:27 (UTC -7 )
I will never forget the time during the 1997(?) federal election when I saw Bronconnier’s and Chretien’s face side-by-side on an election ad in Calgary. Then and there I wondered how Calgarians who generally vote conservative could keep electing a Liberal as mayor of their city. Now with a possible 25% tax hike over the next three years, we see the result of this folly.