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Old 11-25-2011, 01:16 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by MarchHare View Post
Encouraging more mass transit usage? That's social engineering! Better to save every Calgarian $5/month on their tax bill instead.
That's not conisistent with McIver's mayoral campaign at all. He wanted to continue subsidizing sprawl and build the SE LRT (also a sprawl inducer), which would've meant long term tax increases.

For clarity: I like investing in transit, but if you build to the edge of the city and subsidize the houses that will be more likely to get built there as a result, that's bad for the city as a whole.
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