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- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!buckland
- From: buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland)
- Newsgroups: bc.general
- Subject: Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 18:58:00 GMT
- Organization: University Computing Services, UBC, Canada
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- Message-ID: <1du9foINNnns@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- References: <schuck.721414922@sfu.ca> <1992Nov11.082811.2313@ee.ubc.ca> <schuck.721519561@sfu.ca>
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- In article <schuck.721519561@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes:
- >A better solution, and cheaper, would be to ban cars in the downtown
- >area of Vancouver and force people to use buses, skytrain and commuter
- >rail. That would be cheaper and cleaner and much less of a waste of
- >resources.
-
- But there will always be _some_ drivers that need access to downtown
- and parking there. My favorite scheme is to systematically eliminate
- downtown parking spaces, on- and off-street, until the desired
- result is achieved. Those who had to pass through would be able to
- do so, with less obstruction than now, and those who really had to
- park (not those who would merely like to park) downtown would still
- find space, although at a price. Our much maligned towing companies,
- plus a bit more enforcing in no-stop zones, would clean away a lot of
- the system-buckers.
-