spider
Senior Member
1/ Property tax can be increased 10% with ALL proceeds to be invested in Subway construction only. Yes I am a residential property owner in Toronto.Go right ahead. No, seriously, find a way. What do you suggest, a huge increase in property taxes? Major road tolls on existing roads and highways? A large gas tax, sales tax, income tax? Perhaps an annual bake sale?
2/ Ever notice that none of the fund raising proposals involve the TTC riders? They are going to benefit most from new Subways but shouldn't be asked to carry some of the load? Increase cash fares to $4.00 with the increase going to new Subway capital costs only.
3/ Considerable savings can be realised by yanking TTC operations into this century. A few minutes ago I dropped in on "Nextbus" and "Where is my streetcar" and noticed packs of streetcars running together on the 501 and 510 lines, like 5 streetcars in 4 minutes on a sunny Sunday afternoon. You don't have to be a math whiz to figure out that there are way too many streetcars out there, maybe twice as many as required but what do they care.