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Originally Posted by CivicBlues
What's perplexing to me is why the business community is not pushing back on City Council on these outlandish ideas. Surely there's some saner heads which fund the campaigns or outright bribe these politicians. What is going on here? Are the puppet masters drinking the Kool Aid as well?
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Mostly because City Hall is excluding them from any consultation and they hear about the latest crazy ideas on news.
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“This idea needs to be parked for now,” said Charles Gauthier, president and CEO of the Vancouver Downtown Business Improvement Association.
Gauthier said his organization was never consulted on the plan and it is only now studying the staff report. “I don’t think the city took into consideration the effect on downtown businesses [of a traffic toll].”
https://biv.com/article/2020/11/road-pricing-could-jam-vancouvers-exit-ramps
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