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Originally Posted by Ethaniel
So Ronald I should move into the core and pay twice as much for a house I can't now afford? So me living in a good neighborhood and being able to provide a house for my family and daughters is not the right choice. I should force them to live in an apartment in the core and eat bread every night? As it stands right now what if i could not afford to pay for this parking? $900 dollars a year and maybe i could not afford it what then? Should my family suffer because I have a job downtown. What are my other options to save this $900 dollars a year so my family doesn't suffer? (this is all assuming that i could not afford to sacrifice more like a lot of people in society) What if a family is scraping by on the fact you got a job downtown and now you don't have bus service and you have to find another $900 a year just to make it to work so your family does not starve.
I understand your point Ronald, but you have to remember a lot of people cannot afford $200 more a year let alone almost one thousand a year. What happens if those people are required to stay where they are at and have no other options? Should their family suffer more because the kids parents can't be home for an extra 2 hours a day? Don't even get me started on the fact do you know what an additional 2 hours of child care is just so you can get to work.
You are probably both living downtown and single. You have to remember i am not fighting for myself i can afford this and have no problem I am fighting for the people that can't and have no other option.
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I'm really sick of all the whining from people who live in the suburbs. When I moved with my family to the burbs I picked a neighbourhood close to a train station for this very reason. People who buy houses in Cranston and then bitch about commuting times, cost of commute, length of commute, no easy access to train, etc.... just get on my nerves. Have some foresight and take responsibility for your decisions. It's like the people who move to Brentwood and then bitch about the noise of the airplanes. Do some F'ing research before you make the biggest purchase of your lives.
It's a $3 a day charge and there is talk about having a monthly pass that includes parking for a discount. If you can't afford it then you're not going to stop feeding your family or be forced to move downtown. You'll simply have to find alternative means to get to the train station. You know, a carpool, the bus or driving close to a train and then walking four or five blocks. Stop being so melodramatic, it's just a user fee.