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That won't happen without taking more of people's pay through higher income tax, higher sales tax, or all residents paying a new tax, to cover the cost of it.
That's the idea, everyone pays into it and everyone uses it!
That is a reflection of your lifestyle. It will never happen. Life is a lot better owning a vehicle. Married families with careers owning 2 vehicles. Between work, shopping, needing to get around town due to obligations outside of work, transit is not an option. Try arguing that everyone must use transit when you are raising 3 or 4 children.
Vehicle owners benefit greatly from public transit. Anyone group on the public transit system is a vehicle off the road making it easier for the other drivers. The tax needs to be knowledge driven; drivers, especially those who are opposed to public transit, are the ones that need to be taxed the most.
If public transit was more powerful, there would be less traffic on the road (which is good for drivers), less road maintenance needed (which is good for drivers) more parking available (which is good for drivers)...
I'm in a small town and transit currently sucks, with all the planning and extra hours it would take to get anywhere, it's not worth it. If it was free, I'd definitely take it more often and spontaneously. Back when it was free in 2020 I hopped on a few times when I didn't feel like walking home.
No, because of different famiky members needing ti get to different cities without transfering, life is easier for everybody to own their own vehicle. There is greater personal freedom with owning a car or truck. More can get done in less time. Having children, teenagers, and parents, transit does not work. The more privately owned vehicles thIt's strictly idealogues who are not raising a family who push so hard for transit.
Personal vehicles are a terribly inefficient way to move lots of people. There's no freedom in being stuck in traffic for 3 hours, and transit is really quite good anywhere around Vancouver. If you live out in the sticks, stay out of public transit conversations.
Even with what you said, that doesn't change the fact that if OTHER people are taking transit, it still benefits the people who aren't taking transit, which is what my comment was addressing.
if 10% of people took transit instead of driving, then there would be 10% fewer people on the road, 10% fewer cars in parking lots, 10% less maintenance... all of which benefits you.
Could easily be done. Just take away all that money that is funnelled into the pockets of the Translink c-suite.
And being a private corporation, if their money is taken they could shut down Translink and go out out of business. As long as it has private ownership, they can cancel all transit services anytime they want if the money is cancelled.
No government legislation can stop a private business from shutting down. Transit will only be free by raising everybody's taxes to take more of everybody's money, as I said through higher sales taxes and/or higher income taxes for all people.