More taxes? Metro mayors need to get some new ideas
Mobility pricing is just another name for tolling. The Metro Vancouver mayors have to come up with a better plan.
The truth is that they just want their hands in our pockets without having to come forward with new and more progressive ideas. Without a more creative approach, any referendum on the subject will be defeated.
Here are a couple of ideas: Restrict longhaul trucks within the region between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. No longer build or modify bridges or highways without having on-grade light rail. Be more vocal about the removal of existing bridges and tunnels that could still be used.
Don’t get me started about the removal of the Georgia Street Viaduct in Vancouver, which is just a big land grab by the city.
Allen Williams, Port Coquitlam
Same problem, new location
In regard to the letter last week that referred to the Massey Tunnel as the “worst bottleneck in Canada,” I can see the drive south benefiting mildly, but the elephant in the room is the Oak Street Bridge when one is heading north.
The new bridge will simply move the bottleneck from the south end of the tunnel to the south end of the Oak Street Bridge. Tom Gray, North Delta
Why do we pay?
Whether it’s bridge tolls, mobility pricing on roads or a tax of some other type, I just don’t understand why the people in the Lower Mainland have to pay additionally for their roads and bridges when that isn’t the case in the rest of B.C.
Richard Townsend, Surrey
Brace yourselves for taxes
I strongly believe that the Green-NDP government-in-waiting is going to screw over ordinary citizens with a wave of new taxes. At least with Premier Christy Clark we knew where we stood.
We now have a bunch of turncoats trying to get power so that they can fill their pockets with our hard-earned wages. Are we not taxed enough? Do they think we do this daily grind for their benefit?
David Moore, Maple Ridge
The fact is the NDP lost
Like a broken record, the people of B.C. repeatedly hear NDP Leader John Horgan telling Premier Christy Clark, “Recall the legislature immediately and face a confidence vote so British Columbians can get the new government they voted for.”
The B.C. Liberals won the election, with 43 seats and 40.36 per cent of the vote, over the NDP, with 41 seats and 40.28 per cent, and the Greens with three seats and 16.84 per cent. The NDP only won four seats north of the Fraser Valley.
It’s time for Horgan to admit that the Liberals won a minority government and the NDP once again lost the election — now five times in a row with three different leaders. Joe Sawchuk, Duncan
They’re losers? They won!
All the letters regarding the provincial election results from all the angry Liberal supporters are hilarious — so many complaints about the NDP being sore losers and how they couldn’t accept losing to the Liberals again.
The Liberals didn’t win enough seats to form a majority government, nor did they receive a majority of the votes cast. The majority was split between the NDP and the Greens, so the majority of voters didn’t want the Liberals. A coalition government is the only reasonable result.
Those who complain that the coalition members want to change the voting system because they’re losers might want to consider the facts. James Copeland, Coquitlam