NarrativeBear

How else are we going to increase shareholder value

Most of Ontario's roadway infrastructure is in a decline and has been for a while now. Think potholes, crumbling sidewalks, crumbling bridges, lack of roadway reworks for better traffic calming and pedestrian safety to reach "vision zero".

Its amazing how much car centric infrastructure costs to build and maintain. Its also heavily subsidised, because if you had to pay the "actual cost" to use a roadway it would be unaffordable. Not to mention the indirect costs, such as environmental costs and public heath and wellbeing.

There is a visible difference in how well maintained the tolled 407 is compared to other 400 series highways in terms of proper on/off ramps, concrete roadways, quick response times to debris clearing.

It is a shame the remaining "profits" (after maintainace costs) do not go into other infrastructure projects in Ontario, like schools, hospitals, and parks, but instead a private purse.

Why are these two standing right in the centre of what looks to be a road?! Get off the road stupid pedestrians, you're asking to get run over. /s

What are your thoughts on bike lanes?

“While people are stuck in gridlock across the GTA, the 407 sits half-empty"

Looks like tolls are actually beneficial to reducing congestion...

Tolls help with choosing other forms of transportation, and reduce gridlock. If individuals had to choose to pay a direct fee (as opposed to a indirect fee) people may choose to drive less and choose to support forms of public transits more. This would ease congestion and promote a need for better more frequent public transportation.

Cities should start implementing a "Congestion Charge" for their downtown cores. Every vehicle should have a transponder so once it enters a specific area in a city centre it gets pinged and tolled. Residents living inside these areas would probably be a exemption to promote more families choosing to live in cities as opposed to commuting in and out everyday.

Older generation "nobody wants to fight anymore".

Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPWY9Mka4Io

I think it really just came down to costs and city budgets. Cities always seem to cut public funding allocated for things like this when trying to balance their budgets.

That is why I find a few of the comments that were suggesting the city should hire the man a little counterintuitive. The first thing the city would cut would be the light show saying it's to expensive and to extravagant, probably in the same year they hire him even.

Holiday drive thru light shows in the GTA pretty much sums up the car centric nature of Ontario.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.todocanada.ca/drive-thru-holiday-light-displays-in-gta/amp/

They should just end the drive thrus at a Timmie's, nothing is more Canadian.

Seems to align with keeping the general public as uneducated as possible.

The more uneducated a population as a whole the easier for a government to control.

This just in, people with money have more to spend.

But how else will ticketmaster get a cut each time the ticket is resold. Also on a resale of a ticket through ticketmaster the tax is applied once again. And the more expensive the resale ticket is, the higher the cut ticketmaster gets.

Transfers between family don't get taxed as they are not "sold".

Seems like governments won't do anything because each resale gives tax revenue.

Kind of like that time Canada was trying to figure out how to tax private second hand sales on platforms like facebook marketplace and kijiji to name a few.