Years ago there was an electric bus in Regina. It was on a cross country tour. It stopped in Saskatoon, and in Alberta too. An Albertan city ordered some. The Canadian government put up millions of dollars for Regina to build a new bus barn that could accomodate electric buses. Has it happened yet? No.
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I’d like @YoungBe_young to reject spending over $109,000,000 on moving rail lines that people will soon need to use again for transportation in and out of Regina. How many properties are paying tax in #yqrcc? Let’s assume a high 50,000. That’s $2200 each, to wait less in traffic on some streets, at uncommon times you encounter a long train. Can you think of a better way to spend more than two thousand of your tax dollars?
Additionally it would be a gift to private industry, since CP and CN are not publicly owned any longer. We already gave hundreds of millions of dollars to the Roughriders so they’d have a shiny new stadium, and that raised the city’s debt noticeably. Property taxes have gone up for that as a result of stadium spending.
For less than half the cost of a gift to CP/CN, we could have more than 50 new, electric buses. Yes, quiet, efficient, non-polluting public transportation that everyone can depend more on. That’s how you wait less in traffic, the smart way. The stupid way is to give twice as much money to ripping out infrastructure that should be publicly owned still.
We should be able to take low-polluting trains to other points in Canada from our capital city. That opportunity was robbed from my generation, back in 1990. To ensure our kid’s generation has an opportunity to raise kids, we need to restore this mode of transportation to supremacy in the next decade. Wasting $109Mil moving Regina in the wrong direction is irresponsible, financially reckless, and contradicts the 100% Renewable by 2050 motion passed by Council last year.
Not enough bike rack space for the Stadium, but that’s a problem almost any event in the Summer if the bike valet isn’t operating.
Between 5 and 6:45 p.m., residents can take a transit shuttle to Mosaic Stadium from the following pickup locations:
• Downtown
• Southland Mall
• Warehouse
• University of Regina*Northgate Mall was not available to participate due to conflicting events.
I’ve asked the City to update us on what will be done about a bike lane to the stadium that was promised to us before they even started construction.
Councillor Stevens sent this message to the RCPTC transit activism group:
“This Thursday, the Community and Protective Services Committee will consider a proposal to introduce an airport route. A report on improving Sunday and holiday service was positively received by the Committee a few months ago, and has advanced to the budget deliberation stage. The Accessibility Advisory Committee is reconvening, the costs of monthly passes have gone down, and a low-income pass was introduced.
Keep up the great work!
Andrew”
These are certainly welcome items. If you can help convince the Committee on Thursday we have people harmed by having no Airport route, please do so.
We need bigger improvements in the medium and long terms, so let’s keep pushing for them.
John Klein - Regina 