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Originally Posted by Messerschmitt
You mean how they have a Translink tax in the petrol AND in bchydro bill? AND in SFU parking?
And how you need to pay 11$ from next year if you have to travel from one end to the other with return?
How Toronto (no zones) only costs you 6$ for a return from one end to the other?
Thranslink is the biggest ripoff. It's not even govn. It's private (AFAIK). And they get all these subsidies. I think we need to vote a new govn.
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Originally Posted by MindBomber
Toronto Transit Commission covers a 622 square kilometer service area.
Translink covers a 2977 square kilometer service area.
It's completely unreasonable to compare the pricing of a Translink 3 zone pass to a TTC pass, because the two passes service completely incomparable sized areas. It's like saying a flight to Toronto should cost the same as a flight to Calgary.
It would be reasonable to compare pricing of a Translink 1 zone pass to a TTC pass, because those two passes service comparable sized service areas. Oddly enough, Translink suddenly offers much better value when you do that - Translink $91 (2013) 1 zone pass compared to the TTC $126 pass.
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Next time you feel like making a post like this spend a moment researching and reading on the subject first. You'll actually achieve something that way.
You live in a first world country, a place where transit is subsidized on the same principles as education. A SFU student suggesting transit should not be subsidized, because they do not make use of the service is completely hypocrital; a SFU education is largely being paid for by people in the work force who have either never attended post-secondary or attended only short technical programs.
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Originally Posted by UFO
^with that blanket tolling of all bridges and tunnels, you could decrease the toll amounts to generate the income that you need. Take it a step further, toll based how much you drive regardless of whether its road, bridge, tunnel. Like a glorified gas tax if you will
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I do not like this concept.
I hold the belief that gas taxes are a highly appropriate driving tax; it's a simple, streamlined, and fair base system.
I do support tolling all bridges, tunnels, and routes such as the Coquihalla and Sea to Sky, because the cost of building and maintaining them makes up a disproportionate percentage of cost relative to use for the overall road network. The people who make use of those services should therefore foot the bill. Not the person in Langley who crosses a bridge twice a year.