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Originally Posted by MarchHare
According to Statscan, in 2005, 81% of Canada's population lived in urban centres. For most employees in urban environments, it is possible to walk/bike or take public transit to work. Your completely unsubstantiated claim that "NO one would be able to go to work because it would cost WAY to much" is a total fallacy.
Furthermore, if gas prices increased to the point that commuters were discouraged from driving, demand for public transit would increase which would in turn lead to better/expanded infrastructure being built.
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Statistics are often disconnected to the real world. How is this so called "Urban centre" defined? Even within the major cities there are commutes that would not be feasible if done with our crappy transit system.
As for your theory on demand for public transit = better product, THAT is the total fallacy. What makes you think our city politicians will suddenly rush everything through without a hitch after 20 years in the making to build one freakin' leg of LRT, and I'm sure Calgary is not the only city with such an inefficient city council.
Even assuming they did catch up to the Euros and Asian standards for transit, who is going to pay in the end? The taxpayer. Now you have ANOTHER TAX on top of the carbon tax on top of all the other taxes you are already paying. (Yes you still pay the carbon tax even if you don't drive, it would just show up in your bus pass and everything you eat and buy).
Tax Tax Tax, it's the Liberal way, The Man always sticking his hand in the hard working middle-class Canadians' pockets to subsidize the ones too lazy to take control of their own lives, because the social safety net will always be there for them.