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RSS FeedsWake up Toronto and tackle transportation: James
(The Star Food)

 
 

18 february 2017 13:56:26

 
Wake up Toronto and tackle transportation: James
(The Star Food)
 


One does not have to be economically suicidal or carry a strain of self-destructive genes to voluntarily embrace road tolls.Or higher property taxes.Or a municipal income tax.Or the establishment of a special one-time transit fund, initiated by a levy on all citizens.In fact, Toronto’s civic needs are so great, the costs so enormous and the sources of funds so limited that this city region needs all of the above.Make that, all of the above — and more — for the benefit of the entire urban region stretching from Waterloo to Peterborough, down to Niagara and up to Barrie. This area is Canada’s economic ticket. Toronto is the heart. The sooner we face the funding reality, the sooner we will begin to address the first of the issues threatening to choke off our success — transportation.Everybody realizes this now. We are spread out too far. Our commute is too long and too congested. We can’t build a wall fast enough to stop the world from coming to our shores. And delays only exacerbate the problems.To embrace tolls is to shake hands with the obvious — even if the solution is not perfect, which it isn’t. Of course, road tolls are a regressive tax. Of course, they “punish” drivers who must use a particular roadway while sparing drivers with options to avoid the toll. Of course, this is not an ideal form of public fiscal management.Tolls have benefits and negatives. But it is no tool to sneeze at, especially when the tool box is slammed shut by our own allergy to higher taxes and failure of the provincial and federal governments to provide permanent help.The single greatest failure of our political leaders over the last three decades is the abject dereliction of the duty to get this clear message across to constituents.Instead of repeating this essential truth, ad nauseam, our mayors and premiers and regional chairs and too many talk show hosts and opinion leaders have peddled an insidious and corrosi ...


 
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