Higher transit taxes do nothing for Township
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Updated: November 03, 2009 4:27 PM
Editor: It was with a great deal of disquiet that I heard that Township Mayor Rick Green voted in favour of further expenditures from our meagre funds to support transit.
The populations of southern and eastern Langley get little or no transit for their money. I can accept that we continue to contribute the previous amount to the general transit funds “for the good of all,” and in hopes that we too will one day have access to public transportation.
I cannot accept that, one way or another, we will be forced to bear an increased burden of further taxation, either through property tax, on our utility bills or via our vehicles. We face increased taxes on gas and potential tolls when we drive on Highway 1, and go over the new Port Mann Bridge.
Surely it is time that “them that gets pays for it” — not the citizens who have to walk a mile or two or three to get to the nearest bus. This for a bus that passes by every half hour or even less frequently, and does not run, for example, to Glouscester Estates at the beginning or end of the working day.
With the new CEO of TransLink stating publicly that there will be no improved service south of the Fraser in the foreseeable future, what are we, the residents of the Township of Langley, paying for?
I sincerely hope that Green and other mayors from the outlying districts of the GVRD will consider our place in the scheme of things.
Until the residents of the Township of Langley are shown that they will get something for the money which we contribute, I feel that we should withdraw from the GVRD and the transit system. It’s just too much money for negligible service.
Ann Fessenden,
Aldergrove
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