8mo ago

Canadian Cities Should Do Congestion Pricing - Reece Martin

reecemartin.ca Canadian Cities Should Do Congestion Pricing

Canadian cities have a big problem — well, actually, they have several. Ridership recovery from COVID has not been completed, transit systems are starved for funds, and congestion is very severe. C…

Seems especially obvious with the geography and transit funding shortfalls present in both Montreal and Vancouver.

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Fuck off, give us better public transit, then pull this crap
- Wow. Nice. Congestion charges literally go towards improving transit. Also government in Canada are already spending record amounts on building transit. If you need to go into a zone that would have a congestion charge in Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver) you would have at least a park and ride option.
- If we were to follow what was proposed in NYC, the funds from the congestion fees would be used to fund more public transit.
  
  After how long? And what do they mean by more public transit exactly?
  
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- Doing this with out public transit is the ultimate fuck you to working people lol
  
  Literally a blog post written by a public transit supporter.
  
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  Then this person is tone deaf...
  What am I missing here?

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