The Editor,
Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore and friends, unions and business are all in favour of transportation Improvement for Metro Vancouver and the 0.5% increase in the sales tax to pay for it.
I have the suspicion that has nothing to do with improving public transportation but all to do with self interest.
I am leaning towards voting No unless they come clean and answer some basic questions: Will this tax be increased year after year? If they build a new Pattullo Bridge, will it be tolled? Are they going to gut TransLink of those highly paid idiots? Do they need the expensive Transit Police? What about a private security?
Charity begins at home. As a relatively new PoCo resident, I am appalled at the almost non-existent public transportation here. Also, during 2014, my household paid almost $400 toward the carbon tax and transit fees, and that does not include gasoline tax.
T. Paone, Port Coquitlam
