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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(06-16-2017, 03:15 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:
(06-16-2017, 03:01 PM)Canard Wrote: I don't pay to ride my bike on the Spur Line Trail...

Nor do motorists pay to use local streets, or in this backward country of ours, even superhighways.

But ultimately, charging is a good way of rationing use of a scarce resource. Parking is scarce, where and because real estate is scarce.

Even if we did charge for use of bike trails, the fee would have to be miniscule compared to the fee required to use a motor vehicle on a public road.

Agree... the thing about surface parking is all the externalities associated with it. Land value, maintenance, salt pollution, heat island effect, lack of green space, visual impacts... the list can go on forever. Based on its intensity of use and provided benefit/square metre it is simply a terrible use of land with a really high cost associated with it that nobody seems to pay for.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by urbd - 06-16-2017, 03:42 PM
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