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Old 03-16-2009, 01:03 PM   #78
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And for people like me who need to take the NE leg it's just more convienent to take the car instead of transfering downtown. Two big thumbs down to the city

They say the fee's are necessary in order to maintain costs needed to run the LRT, instead of increasing taxes. Normally I hate the thought of increased taxes but that might not be a bad idea for this issue.

It may even enourage people to take the train to work, especially with the thought of, "I'm paying for it anyways, might as well use it."
That line is such BS. I can't believe no one has viciously called them on it.

The problem is, Calgary Transit revenue goes into the blackhole also known as "general revenue," where designer pedestrian bridges, social engineering plans, and other socialist frutopia schemes swallow up countless millions.

There's no way (using their cost numbers of roughly $50-55m per year cost) that they don't make money. Figure 250,000 people a day ride as they say, and lets say only 125k per day actually pay an average of $3 per day... that's $2.63m per week or $136m per year.

We all also know that every expansion project is largely funded by the province and/or even the federal government. So its not like this money has to be used exclusively to pay for every improvement CT builds.

If Farmer Ed wasn't such a moron, he would have put an abrupt stop to much of City Hall's foolishness. Unfortunately, he's too busy ruining investor confidence in Alberta so that there isn't money for new projects.
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