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Phantom,Feb 11 2006, 04:34 PM Wrote:That also may be why others on here don't comment. The pub transportation doesn't affect them in the least bit, so why would they care?.
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In 1987 I was a 19 years old, I couldn't afford the $1500 basic PL&PD insurance on my car, so I had to bus to work. My job wasn't that far off the beaten track (for you Windsor guys, I worked at Tepperman's) but the bus to that area ran every 60 minutes. So I had to take the bus at 5:15 AM to catch the connection (I lived near IODE Hospital) to get to my job by 7AM. Yes, a 30 minute bus ride, and 45 minute wait on a bus bench to catch the connection. Cost: $1.20 a trip, a month pass was $75.

This was a far cry from the $85 a month a TTC pass cost me (or $.90 a trip) when I was stationed at the Downsview base, and you could get all over Toronto and Scarborough. And you didn't have to wait all day to do it.

People that take the TTC should be forced to go to another city and take their public transit. You don't know how good you have it.

I have a house in a survey at the outskirts of Hamilton. My $5000 a year in property taxes include a (IIRC) $130 public transit (HSR) surcharge. Guess what? The HSR doesn't even RUN out here. It's a 20 minute walk to get to the nearest bus stop. In my 14 years in Hamilton my family and I've taken it less than 10 times, so if you do the math that's over $100 a trip by my reckoning.

When rates hit that in Toronto, you'll have my sympathy.