Parking Responsibility

This page was disgusted by the selfish, ignorant, and self-destructive behaviour of several merchants at Metrotown during the Easter weekend. Oblivious to the fact that all of them are located just a few hundred metres from the one of the largest transit hubs in the Lower Mainland, these retailers posted notices encouraging their customers to support their efforts in blocking a critical source of public transit funding.

To the members of the Fair Tax Coalition, or the No Parking Tax coalition, or whatever Kevin Falcon-loving Board of Trade Waste of Skin you are: this one's for you! If the Translink Board rejects the $1.02 per sq. metre parking tax (which was already cut from $25 million to $20 million because of your short-sighted bitching), where is that money going to come from? Increased property taxes? Increased fares? Gee, if property owners and transit riders are further out of pocket because local business refuses to pay their fare share, it may mean the public has less money to....I dunno....GO SHOPPING?!

What about service cuts? Force more people into cars and pay gas prices that cut further into their disposable income? It didn't surprise this page in reading this moronfesto that they wanted me to contact my MLA, and the contact information was only for Lieberal MLA's. Parking tax reactionaries: Don't expect me at your little insurrection at Wednesday's Translink Board meeting in Langley, and until you learn to suck it up and take a long view of transportation planning in the Lower Mainland, don't expect my business either.