Dear Editor:
The board of directors of TransLink, or more correctly of the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority, has the power to raise revenue through property taxes, fares, tolls, a hydro levy, parking taxes and fuel taxes.
Except for fares and tolls, the latter two are most directly related to transit. They have the added advantage that they would tax tourists and non-Metro Vancouver residents as well as residents. In other words, anyone who uses an automobile or truck on our road system.
The sales tax increase simply isn’t fair to the poorest of us who probably also use the transportation infrastructure the least.
It should and probably will be defeated and will have accomplished nothing other than to waste a few million dollars.
We elected our politicians to lead us and to make tough decisions on this very complicated problem.
Time they did that. It can’t be reduced to a yes or no referendum.
Bill Richardson
North Vancouver
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