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NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 10:15 am
by Symbonite
So they are removing the tolls on the bridges
Great....now we have to all pay instead of user pay. and before you say that I said nothing about the Coq tolls...i was disappointed when they removed them too...and you can tell how the road condition suffered since they did.
Time for a PST tax hike I guess.
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 10:26 am
by alfred2
he is doing it for his voters , that is ndp.How about the rest of the province? When are you taking msp off ,or are the ndp voters rich enough that they do not mind . This is a payoff to the small ndparea , there is more to this province then van.
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 10:26 am
by Retrosnap
Symbonite wrote:So they are removing the tolls on the bridges
Great....now we have to all pay instead of user pay. and before you say that I said nothing about the Coq tolls...i was disappointed when they removed them too...and you can tell how the road condition suffered since they did.
Time for a PST tax hike I guess.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/transportation-bc-1.4261972On Friday morning, he said that remaining debt from the Port Mann will be transferred to the provincial debt. The province is currently in discussion with TransLink to determine how to make up for the shortfall in revenue, the premier added.
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 10:32 am
by Retrosnap
Symbonite wrote:
Time for a PST tax hike I guess.
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 10:34 am
by Leifer
Listening to Horgan pat himself on the back while delivering this announcement on CKNW.
Johny boy should maybe hold off on the self congratulating.....giving stuff away does not require allot of political skill or PR acumen.
The rest of B.C now gets to pay for something that will primarily benefit the Lower Mainland (not that they didnt already get the lions share of public dollars).
Supporting his base I suppose.
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 10:34 am
by Carrs Landing Viking
No plan what so ever on how to pay for the bridges though.
This is going to be costly for all tax payers of BC.
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 10:38 am
by maryjane48
every9none already was paying for them. they lost money since day one. reality vs bclib fantasy
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 10:41 am
by jimmy4321
Ya it's stupid to drop tolls
Oh well maybe they can bump ICBC rates even further to pay for it, time to raid the cookie jar.
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 10:45 am
by Urbane
We went through an entire election campaign with no NDP fiscal plan and four and a half months after the election we still have no plan. And now we hear that there won't be a full budget and fiscal plan from the NDP until February so perhaps that's when we'll find out how the tolls will be replaced?? It's easy to cut out things like tolls but a lot harder to figure out how the tolls will be replaced. Andrew Weaver calls the policy change "reckless" and I would add "dishonest" to that as well. Nothing is free!
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 10:51 am
by Carrs Landing Viking
I have this very distinct feeling that Andrew Weaver will not support the NDP budget in February 2018.
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 10:56 am
by Triple 6
IDIOT. so all the money spent on the Treo offices (Not to mention the jobs that will be lost) I had no issues paying the toll on the COQ (I felt it was better maintained) could they not have just lowered the tolls?
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 10:58 am
by maryjane48
Triple 6 wrote:IDIOT. so all the money spent on the Treo offices (Not to mention the jobs that will be lost) I had no issues paying the toll on the COQ (I felt it was better maintained) could they not have just lowered the tolls?
they lost money from day one . tolls or not to tune of millions
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 10:59 am
by Bettyb
I think my taxes will go up to pay for a bridge I never use, it's the NDP way, how people forget the last go around with this government
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 11:04 am
by Carrs Landing Viking
Triple 6 wrote:IDIOT. so all the money spent on the Treo offices (Not to mention the jobs that will be lost) I had no issues paying the toll on the COQ (I felt it was better maintained) could they not have just lowered the tolls?
Exactly, more lost jobs, under the NDP watch.
Absolutely pathetic start to this government.
Re: NDP removing tolls on Vancouver bridges
Posted: Aug 25th, 2017, 11:13 am
by Retrosnap
Carrs Landing Viking wrote:Triple 6 wrote:IDIOT. so all the money spent on the Treo offices (Not to mention the jobs that will be lost) I had no issues paying the toll on the COQ (I felt it was better maintained) could they not have just lowered the tolls?
Exactly, more lost jobs, under the NDP watch.
Absolutely pathetic start to this government.