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Contributed by Jim Elliott
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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
Almost all of the consumption fees for the City of Regina are going up. This could be good or bad depending on your perspective.
In the proposed budget for the City of Regina released Friday, the highlites of the budget changes identified some of the service fee changes.
The transit and paratransit cash fee for use is staying the same. This is a good thing. The problem is that the fee has been increasing almost every six months for the last few years. If we are trying to encourage the use of public transportation in this city to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce costs, shouldn't the prices be going down?
With all of the infrastructure money going into purchasing new buses, is the service getting better? Maybe with new buses but the frequency and number of buses isn't going up. There is the addition of a shuttle bus going to the Food Bank Monday to Friday between 10:00 and 12:00 and between 2:00 and 4:00. When asked to increase the number of buses going to the university to limit automoblie congestion on and off campus, the city did consider working with the student's union and the community. More next fall perhaps.
On a different point, the price to get water, dispose of water i.e. sewer, drain the roads and parkinglots is all going up. This may encourage people to reduce water consumption but wouldn't it be easier just to purchase or give rebates on low-flow showerheads, toilets and faucets and provide them to homeowners and businesses. That would be a guarentee of reduced water use not a voluntary pledge or encouragement to the water user.
These fees, by the way, are going to a self-funding utility that is supposed to cover its costs with the prices it charges. If the prices are going up, then are we getting more done or just treading water and keeping our head above water so to speak? Or is this to start paying for the repairs to the infrastructure sprawl going out into new and more suburbs that are not needed? Or is this to pay for the deficit in development fees we are getting to cover our growing infrastructure costs?
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