City of Ottawa

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Originally Posted by J.OT13

Everyone pays taxes, even renters. The property owners download their taxes to their tenants as part of their rent. Transit fares should be cheaper to make transit more competitive. It may never beat driving in terms of speed, especially off peak, but it could certainly be cheaper.

Those who remember the transit strike in the winter of 2008-2009 could probably validate that traffic was far worse than it was when transit was/is running.

They aren't impacted by a tax increase so effectively don't care about taxe rates. Sure in the long term higher taxes lower development and raise rents but I don't think they are arguing for any other trickle down economics regarding landlords. It's pretty clear that lower than inflation property tax and low mortgage rates didn't cause any landlords to give tenants a break.

A total shutdown of transit in fact didn't even shut down the city and we aren't talking about that. Of course transit usage increases with service increaes the converse is true with transit fares but it is largely inelastic.

Originally Posted by acottawa

I suspect you don’t use a very limited number of roads. How do you think the crap you buy and food you eat gets into the city?

In fairness that's about as marginal as transit service is to traffice. A total road-diet anti car agenda isn't going to lead to shortages in the super market or even inflation.