Circa 1877 (née Brick Brewery) | 20 fl | Complete

[MidTowner]

You can leave Waterloo Region very well without owning a car. Our intercity public transit, while not great, is much better than people often give it credit for- I went to Toronto the other day by Go train, and had the opportunity to come back home earlier than I had expected. No problem, as we now have hourly Go service via Bramalea.

Between transit, car sharing, and car rental, no one is trapped in Waterloo Region just because they happen not to own a car.

timc wrote:

Isn't $50/month a rather low price?

In Toronto, if you don't have a parking space on your property, an on-street permit costs less than twenty dollars a month. If you do, it's barely fifty dollars a month.
In the neighbourhood I lived in Hamilton, many people had parking permits, because many of the homes had no parking. It really was necessary at times as there was a busy shopping street very nearby, at least occasionally parking would be quite limited. Those permits were not even ten dollars a month, which I figure could barely even cover the cost of delivering the program. Still some people managed to complain about the cost.
If we ever need resident on-street parking permits in KW (I can't imagine where- which neighbourhoods have a lot of properties with no onsite parking?), the fee would not be $50 per month.