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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
It's the city declaring war on renters and low income people. Although, let's be honest, city hall doesn't really consider low income earners people at all. Undesirables may be a better term.
The prices are insane and are only going to further increase the disparity in our city. It's going to drive people out of the inner city and into the suburbs because it'll be the only place left they can afford to live. This will only further cause decay to our already struggling transit systems.
Not to mention instead of raising revenues from the most fortunate and wealthy calgarians, the burden will now be on people who live in multifamily dwellings, low income families and the elderly who live in their inner city century homes.
We truly have a complete garbage city council. They don't get enough attention for the awful, awful job they're doing. If it weren't for Kenney/Smith face planting so badly all the time, I'd say they're far and away the most incompetent level of government we deal with.
I mean, I'm sure when the councillors were accepting their bribes from the various interest groups who support this, they reminded them to put out a bunch of BS statements that this is all about encouraging transit and benefitting our already overstuffed side streets but it's pretty clear that's all complete bull####. This is about increasing revenues by ####ing over people who have no means to fight back and have little to no political clout.
The real winners here are the builders, fossil fuel companies, insurance companies and car manufacturers/dealerships because this is going to kill transit.
This could probably be cross posted into the meth thread because they are intrinsically linked.
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I don't know if I saw it as aggressively as you but I agree, the prices are insane. Up to $250/month to park a vehicle at your residence is significant.
We're in a single family home in a parking controlled area so we're lukcy to have appropriate on site parking for our vehicles. (Which I guess furthers your point that those that can afford a place with parking are not being penalized.) That said, we're not thrilled about needing to pay for visitor passes. Honestly, we use our visitor pass a few times a year. For the cost, we're better off offering to reimburse our guests if they get ticketed than paying for visitor passes that are hardly used.
On the plus side, after all of the vehicles belonging to our neighbors are off the front street, our visitors will no longer have a hard time finding parking.
