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- Subject: Re: Transit Levy on BC-Hydro Bills
- Message-ID: <0FZ6TB3w164w@ham.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 22:20:08 PST
- References: <1du9foINNnns@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
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- Organization: Robert Smits
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- buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
-
- All that will do is limit the parking to those wealthy enough to afford
- it, and create a real hardship for the rest of the population. There
- simply isn't a practical alternative at present for many people that use
- cars downtown.
-
-
- Robert Smits Ladysmith B.C. emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca
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