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Originally Posted by GGG
Upper Kananaskis lake is 140.3 km from downtown Calgary
But in the interests of clarity I will rephrase my position. Anyone who can afford to live within cycling distance of Kananaskis and can afford a bicycle has not had their park access restricted by a $90 per year fee.
And anyone with a 100km round trip at .25 cents /km did not find the park become unaffordable when the cost rose from $25 to $40.
Unless you have a friend from Venezuala who just happens to make your point for you that you recently talked to in a food court I don’t think the person you are talking about exists. And if such a person exists then the argument should be means tested passes to support this mythical person not scarp the fee program.
Access for low income is not the reason to be arguing against park fees.
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Absolutely it is. There are number of ways to increase funding that would not be directly detrimental to lower income Albertans.
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Now perhaps you could argue that the fee discourages visitation because people don’t like to pay it and I would agree that is a likely true statement but suggesting poor people can no longer access parks because of the fee and doubling down when challenged is ridiculous.
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Would you argue that it’s more likely the more affluent crowd that would be discouraged or the lower income crowd? Because that’s kinda the point here.
We all come from different places financially but I think your assessment that a fee being small won’t dissuade people is wishful thinking. Perhaps you’ve never been in a situation where you’ve had to pinch every penny(and that’s not meant as a slight, that’s the kind of position we want people to be in) but there are certainly people whose ability to enjoy the parks is affected by this fee being implemented. There’s no denying that.