It costs me about $5 in gas to travel from the Tsawwassen ferry terminal to the northern part of Richmond and back, so why does it cost $6.50 to do the same return trip using public transit?
I need a vehicle to get to work and back because there is no public transit available for all my shift times. So I have to have a car. I have to pay the maintenance and insurance anyway. But... in an effort to go green, I could use public transit at other times. If I wanted to get to Richmond from my home, I would need to take 2 busses, sit in the rain and snow for up to half an hour at Ladner loop, and wait and walk at either end. Plus... I get to throw away an extra dollar fifty! How on earth do the powers to be expect to get people out of their cars?
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There is something seriously wrong when it costs more to ride public transit than to take a private vehicle! On top of that, each homeowner must pay a transit levy on their property taxes! In a poor little country like Greece, they subsidized the busses and made them free during rush hour in order to promote the use of public transit. Now that is what I call being serious about reducing traffic! Here, they talk the talk, but they don't walk the walk. Instead they keep raising the cost of public transit for what? So that a bloated bureaucracy can legally steal our hard earned money? All that money is going somewhere, and I don't see it being spent wisely or for the benefit of the public. Can we trim the fat on Translink? Perhaps Canadians are just too passive and everyone knows it; that's why we keep getting walked on! Do you think it is time we collectively raise our voices?
