08-28-2016, 03:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-28-2016, 03:36 PM by Elmira Guy.)
Charging fees to the townships for services they do not benefit from is absurd.
While the title of this article is slightly (and deliberately I'm sure) inflammatory, it's absurd to charge fees for services that do not exist. Why should reisdents of Conestogo, Maryhill, Heidelburg, Wellesley, et al pay for transit when there is no transit available in those communities? Elmira and St Jacobs have transit (sub par though it may be), and residents of those communities rightly pay for it. But the other communities in the townships are not going to see transit service for decades, yet the region may very well decide to charge $3,600 per new home no matter where in the township they are built? If the chooses this option, is it unfair for residents of the townships to expect some transit service in return for their money, or is that asking too much?
I am an unswerving supporter of LRT but I don't think people should have to pay for something when there community is not serviced by it.
Region Eyes Fees On Township Builds To Help Finance LRT.
http://observerxtra.com/2016/08/18/regio...nance-lrt/
While the title of this article is slightly (and deliberately I'm sure) inflammatory, it's absurd to charge fees for services that do not exist. Why should reisdents of Conestogo, Maryhill, Heidelburg, Wellesley, et al pay for transit when there is no transit available in those communities? Elmira and St Jacobs have transit (sub par though it may be), and residents of those communities rightly pay for it. But the other communities in the townships are not going to see transit service for decades, yet the region may very well decide to charge $3,600 per new home no matter where in the township they are built? If the chooses this option, is it unfair for residents of the townships to expect some transit service in return for their money, or is that asking too much?
I am an unswerving supporter of LRT but I don't think people should have to pay for something when there community is not serviced by it.
Region Eyes Fees On Township Builds To Help Finance LRT.
http://observerxtra.com/2016/08/18/regio...nance-lrt/