450 drivers may be chipping in for public transit
Drivers living in the 450 may each be chipping in an extra $50 yearly to support public transit over the urban community. Note the conditionals, though, and CBC’s recruitment of someone on the south shore to say the idea is awful.
How many of these people commute onto the island to work, wear out its roads and use its services, then go home to their suburban bungoluxes at night?
Blork 09:13 on 2019-06-20 Permalink
I’m sure it wasn’t hard to find someone to complain. People are so territorial about their cars and any fees associated with them. It’s ridiculous. FWIW I live on the south shore and I bring my car into the city maybe five times a month (almost always on weekends), and I have no problem with this fee at all. It’s not even a dollar a week, and it’s for a good cause so STFU neighbours!
Paul 10:25 on 2019-06-20 Permalink
I now live in the 450 and fully support initiatives like this. Thankfully, it appears the politicians are mostly on-board with the idea as well. I wish the CBC had asked me, I would have said to make it higher!! 🙂
Uatu 10:37 on 2019-06-20 Permalink
I live in the 450 too and never drive downtown. I always take public transportation. I have no problem with this fee as long as it goes towards public transit and not into some nebulous “general fund” that some civil servant will use as a piggy bank
Meezly 13:22 on 2019-06-20 Permalink
Re: the CBC article – loved the comment from the retiree with a family of 4 + four cars, who made his second home in the Laurentians his permanent home in order to avoid paying the extra fees in Montreal.
Tim S. 14:39 on 2019-06-20 Permalink
About time. As a Montrealer I find paying the extra fee ironic, because I pretty much only use my car to drive out of the city to the suburbs and countryside. I end up paying to use public transit on a daily basis and then an extra “feel bad because you’re a car owner in the city” public transit fee on the registration.
Tim F. 23:46 on 2019-06-21 Permalink
As a South Shore guy I’m all for this.