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Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp
I think forcing users from parasite communities to pay full freight for parking at Park N Ride lots makes perfect sense. They're a captive audience since most of the time the reason they moved out of the city was because they're cheap. You know if they have to go downtown for work every day, those cheapskates not going to pay for expensive downtown parking. So you set parking for them at something like $8 / day.
It'd be easy enough to distribute passes to Calgary residents so that their parking fee is much lower or nill.
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Listen Bud, you are barking up the wrong tree. And by the way, using the term parasite is totally offensive. Get off your high horse.
First of all, I am on record in this thread that I have no problem with extra parking fees, with extra library fees, with any user fees whatsoever for non residents of Calgary. And where applicable, I pay them every time.
I am also on record as opposing what Ducay wrote and that is
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Its times like this when I'm glad you don't live within the city limits. Even after they get rid of the $3 fees, I hope they implement some sort of extra charge for people from Okotoks, Airdrie, Cochrane, De Winton, to use our C-train.
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I am willing to pay that extra fee only when Calgarians pay for all of the capital expenses for its transit system, and are not subsidized by any provincial or federal tax dollars.
You are going to have to realize that it is not only you who has paid into Calgary Transit system and as such, it is not only you who should get the benefit of using it.
And for all of you who are thinking every non resident is a parasite, that every non resident is cheap and avoids service user fees, well you are wrong.
First of all, we have lived in the country since 1980 and for almost that whole period of time, my husband owned and operated a business downtown and as such has paid taxes towards Calgary Transit. And contrary to what you might think, he did pay for his parking downtown. He is not the only person in this situation.
Second, there are countless people who have moved to the country who have also kept their homes in the city, either for their children to use, or for rental purposes. They pay Calgary taxes too.
I would wager that when you do a breakdown of all these "parasites" who are a burden on your transit system, that there are as many Calgarians you are subsidizing who are riding free on the honor system as there are people in the country getting a so called better deal than you.
Adopting more and higher user fees only increases your burdening bureaucracy, discourages people from using the system, and encourages people to try to beat the system.
Why not make a friendlier system that encourages people to use the system. Provide better bus service or dart service to get people to the C Train stations, adopt a token system to pay, whatever.
When you can say you never step outside of the city of Calgary period, is the day you can call me a parasite.