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Originally Posted by Boblobla
How do you figure they aren't linked? 6 million is revenue is lost due to the park and ride fee and 5 million in spending is cut from parks?
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It's faulty logic. They are not linked in a one-for-one relationship. During the budget debate, there are hundreds, if not thousands of cases where a budget item is either cut, has funding increased, added or deleted altogether. You can't say that "this particular one was cut so the other particular one could be increased."
It's not a case of sacrificing A so B can happen. A1, B1, C1, D1, ..., XYZ1 are cut or deleted so that A2, B2, C2, D2, ..., XYZ2 can be increased or created.
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Originally Posted by Boblobla
Regardless, that 6 million dollars that was for "Security and Cleaning" now needs to come from somewhere else, and that somewhere else probably involves transit and non-transit riders. I wish they would have kept the fee, that is all I am saying.
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This is correct. There are currently three funding sources for transit operations.
1. Park N' Ride Fee payers
2. Transit fare payers
3. City of Calgary taxpayers
The loss of one means that, if costs stay the same, there will be increased burden on the remaining two groups.