Grand River Transit

[tomh009]

I’m not sure it makes intuitive sense to me, either, but it’s not the opinion of the article’s author, no. It was the conclusion of the study the article concerned. Apparently, according to the findings of that study, there’s a big difference between offering two equal subsidies, and offering no subsidy at all. They agree with you that “some people” would take transit if their employer subsidized it to the same tune as parking, but that those some would be very few.

Now I went and actually read the article, and that's projecting a little bit since it only dealt with the tax subsidies.

So the article is comparing (tax credit for driving + free parking + paid transit) with (tax credit for either driving or transit + free parking + paid transit).  We are already at the second scenario (no tax impact from driving vs commute), the question is making the actual use of transit free (which the study did not look at).