Dear Editor
Jordan Bateman is now basking in the defeat of the referendum; His last letter in the NOW suggests that the entire TransLink organization should be gutted along with the transit police. Does he not recognize that TransLink is a multi-billion-dollar operation? Could it possibly operate with one director as he suggests? (The CTF has five members on their board) .
His opinions come across as his personal views, and I doubt that he has ever taken a poll of the taxpayers in order to get verifying information. His strong socialist view is that the money to expand the system will magically appear. Of course it will, from us taxpayers in one form or another. With the 0.5 per cent increase in the sales tax, we would at least know where it was coming from. With the defeat, all of the municipalities will be struggling to find ways to fund the system or suffer cutbacks as costs, especially labour, will continue to rise. Bateman’s legacy will be that he, as a leader of the No vote, set back Metro Vancouver’s transit plans by years.
Should he be proud of that?
Lorne Reesor, via email
