thoughts from the streetcar
Aug. 5th, 2005 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electriclandAfter I finish the Sudoku in the morning, I occasionally read the newspaper that comes with it.
I am liking our new Governor-General. (And how awesome is it that her 6-year-old daughter demanded a new dog before she'd agree to up stakes and move to Ottawa? I wonder what kind they'll get?) I hope she does well.
I'm meh on the Senate appointments. (BTW, if Larry Campbell quit as mayor of Vancouver, what makes him think the Senate is going to be any better?) Really, who cares? A few of them do something useful, and some good things have come out of Senate commissions, but I am thinking more and more strongly that it's time we got rid of the appointed Senate, constitutional nightmare or not. It's a crazy anachronism.
Shut up, Stephen. Actually, I'd be very happy if some government made transit passes tax-deductible -- the PQ was all set to do that before the last Quebec election, then the Liberals canned the program, which I thought was dumb. But the TTC needs a hell of a lot more -- like, oh, financial support from Ontario, Ottawa, or both.
I am liking our new Governor-General. (And how awesome is it that her 6-year-old daughter demanded a new dog before she'd agree to up stakes and move to Ottawa? I wonder what kind they'll get?) I hope she does well.
I'm meh on the Senate appointments. (BTW, if Larry Campbell quit as mayor of Vancouver, what makes him think the Senate is going to be any better?) Really, who cares? A few of them do something useful, and some good things have come out of Senate commissions, but I am thinking more and more strongly that it's time we got rid of the appointed Senate, constitutional nightmare or not. It's a crazy anachronism.
Shut up, Stephen. Actually, I'd be very happy if some government made transit passes tax-deductible -- the PQ was all set to do that before the last Quebec election, then the Liberals canned the program, which I thought was dumb. But the TTC needs a hell of a lot more -- like, oh, financial support from Ontario, Ottawa, or both.
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Date: 2005-08-05 05:31 pm (UTC)Indeed. Much as it would be an interesting incentive, the question that has to be analyzed is: would this result in an increase in ridership that would offset the lost revenue to the transit corps from cutting those taxes off?
Personally I doubt it, since I don't think that current low ridership is a result of the price of transit (cuz it's still fairly cheap), but rather the fact that the service (routes and schedules) is inadequate for the current needs of most potential users. So bottom line: To me this would just cut funds and not add riders to make up for it. :(
Cu,
Andrew