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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
I would also love to see some sort of consideration for very short trips. A five-minute, one-stop trip is much different than a 30 minute, multi-stop commute.
One argument is that there will be less revenue coming in from the same number of trips. But I would argue that there are a lot of trips that aren't taken at all because it isn't worth $7 return to do an errand or activity that's one or two stops away.
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I absolutely, absolutely agree with this. Think of people with mobility issues who maybe don't qualify for subsidized passes, and end up having to pay $3.50 just to go 4 blocks. Meanwhile someone going from say Legacy to Dalhousie pays the same. That's pretty wrong IMO. I think it's Vancouver (and I could be wrong, but it's ringing a bell) that charges based on distance traveled, which I think is brilliant. Think of the folks from Airdrie and Okotoks who don't pay taxes for CT but end up paying the same as someone who does and who travels 1/8th the distance the out of towners do daily.