PsychoBandito
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http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-considering-congestion-fee-for-drivers-1.3360206
As if we don't pay enough for public transit...
As if we don't pay enough for public transit...
Would make sense if the public transit in Montreal wasn't so atrocious, but the left decided that it's better to pay these uneducated idiots driving buses $100k instead of investing in the service offered to customers.
Besides, yes public transportation makes sense for many people commuting directly to the centre of Montreal, or where the metro line reaches, and works 8-5 there, then goes back home. But for so many more, public transportation just doesn't cut it. Aside from the metro being unreliable and expensive, it really takes a lot of time out of your day.
When I used to work in TMR (I live downtown, Guy/Sherbrooke), it took me 15-20 minutes one-way by car and cost me about $60/mo in gas (for my commute only) in my very clean & comfortable car with windows to the outside world. By metro, if no one throws themselves under the wheels, it's 35 minutes one-way and $80 (or so)/mo, and you get the added bonus of being underground, no sunlight with Montreal's finest people. There was no incentive for taking public transportation, even with traffic.
My next daily driver will be a hybrid/full electric, so it'll be even cheaper and greener. Even less incentive for being packed with others day-in and day-out to rake in tax money for the government.
I am pretty sure Quebec is the highest taxed place in North America when you add all the taxes up, just for my income tax Quebec is $6,000.00 higher than Alberta in my bracket. You have great benifits which other provinces do not have, cheap education past high school, ultra cheap daycare etc. Quebecers do not need extra taxes.
If there is a conjestion fee many will avoid the downtown area, I would try and group 3 trips into one or buy at the St.Bruno mall. Coderre is a dick and only looks for money to spend, he does not get his money he shuts things down, with the Energy east pipeline he said that there was no money in it for Montreal so why allow it. Money, money, money.
Or you know you could have taken the 165 which is about 30 minutes on a bus.
I would much rather not take any public transit. If it's a 50/50 split of time and economy, I'll go with my personal car. It's clean, I don't have to be beside anyone I don't like and I come and go as I please.
And when I get a full electric car, it'll be cleaner than my shared fuel from a bus.