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Originally Posted by Russic
I have to agree with Hulkrogan here. You have to do the math and make some decisions.
If you're upset with this new fee you are free to try and brave it and park downtown. If money or your sanity is an issue then I suspect that option won't last long.
You can try and rattle the system and park on a sidestreet, but you know that the city is licking their lips with the thoughts of all the ticket revenue that's going to generate.
Finally, you can take a feeder bus. That will boil down to what your time is worth. Is it worth getting up 15-20 minutes early to save $3 a day?
I stand by my opinion that compared to other parking in the city $3/day is nothing and while it's annoying, I don't think it's impactful enough to change a great deal of behaviours. If you want or need to save your $3 a day then I'm sure there are 3 or 4 people behind you waiting for a parking space that are willing to pay.
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If every commuter's life boiled down to 8-5. Some of us have project work and find ourselves downtown well past rush hour feeder bus service. While it might only be a 15-20 minute increase in the morning, if you're downtown until 8 PM or later for some areas it's seriously a 45 minute - an hour extra time waiting at a train station at night. So no, I won't take a damn feeder bus, until they improve that service with real buses (Not those tiny community shuttles that get packed sometmes) working legitimate schedules (no longer than 15 minutes in between buses). No way I'm waiting another 45 minutes with the hoodlums that hang out at Dalhousie station after dark waiting for a feeder bus.