www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2013/06/...for_gta_transit.html
I wonder if the province and the cities Hamilton, Mississauga, Toront, Burlington the so-called GTHA... took a huge bite out of traffic, forcing people to use transit between a 12 daily period 7 days a week would transit pay for itself and all its expansionary needs..rather than raising taxes directly[/i]
what do I mean: lets say between the hours of 6 am and 6 pm every day of the week huge areas of the downtown cores of these cities become locked off to individual cars, all travel restricted to public transit and taxies would there be any need for tax and fare increases for transit.
lets say in TO the exclusion zone be bounded by Lawrence in the north, Victoria Park to the east and Kipling to the west..the end of the subway line..no individual cars. the benefits for everyone would be enormous: less road wear and tear so less need for road repair...less wear and tear on individual cares less maintenance costs to owners, no traffic jams, much less pollution and better air quality and so better human health in the cities..less accidents.
the losers would be towing companies and who cares about them..the police and less tickets and who cares about that..all the meter maids { who cares} who would be forced to work in the night for to compensate for the parking loss meters could be allowed to charge after 6 pm and up to 6 am
and transit costs during the day to get about Toronto would be much less than parking for a day, along with gas, congestion angst and time to get in and get out of the city. public transit: buses, Trains, street cars, Go Trains etc., would be far faster and better to get to and get out of TO from/to east west and North
the Gardiner and Don Valley cud be left open to by-pass TO. you could drive through to get east and north on that side..or the opposite west side and north.. but not get off.
unless their love of taxes trumps their brains..the province should take a look at this possibility to see if it has any merit
