Re: Will Corrigan say 'I told you so' in two years?, Our View, Burnaby NOW, Oct. 12.
While I agree that the SkyTrain and transit in general needs to be expanded and upgraded, I don't think the taxpayer or the people who have to use their vehicles to get to work or run their business should have to keep paying for it.
These people have to pay for the privilege of using their vehicles for whatever purpose through already excessive taxes, and the upgrades to the highways and bridges are being paid by these people through tolls.
If SkyTrain and transit want to keep expanding and upgrading, then let the people who use it fund it by increasing the fares that they pay.
These fares could have been increased years ago if TransLink had installed turnstiles from day 1.
Think of the extra millions that they could have collected because there was no way to evade the fare.
I just don't think that you can keep asking the average taxpayer to keep paying for the people who ride transit.
D. Dew,
Burnaby
