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Originally Posted by Taeolas
I believe provincial laws prevent Transit corporations from operating outside of their municipality. Clearly Moncton (and Saint John) transit have exceptions/alternate arrangements to let them serve their greater regions. The devil of course is in the details; if Dieppe wanted to change transit services that way, I'm sure there's a lot of gotchas and traps to work through before it would happen. Likely it would involve rearranging Codiac Transit routes to either be entirely within or entirely without Dieppe (maybe with a few border exceptions going to Champlain Place), as well as reworking the deal with Moncton for transit services.
Is there an election coming up? I could see the Mayor doing this to make it an election issue and/or to make the Moncton and Riverview Mayors take a position on the issue as well.
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Next elextions are: May 11, 2020 so not an election issue.
I wonder if this is not conected to the slow expanssion of Dieppe, and that Posibly Dieppe city council where throwing out strategies to make the city more inviting for potential new comers to Greater Moncton. I do see it having some advanteges if you have a bus that is easily accesible from anywhere (Within a 10 Minute walk, or less), and you advertise your city as the place to live, work, and play. Along side with free transit.
I was trying to figure out where I had seen someone try a similar move, and it was a while back during provincial elections, some kid who was "in the running" had stated that he was runing on the platform of Fully free Public education in all levels, and a push for all Municipalities to have free, and accesible public transit. It din't go over so well as the Federal government took over all provincial colleges