Dear Editor:
Regarding the new regional tax towards transit. I went for a walk the other day and read the plaque at Grand Boulevard commemorating the tram line that ran to Lynn Valley from the bottom of Lonsdale. It was built around 1910, along with the one up Lonsdale and to Capilano. The population on the North Shore then was around 5,000 people. At that time we had no sales tax or income tax for that matter. The tram line was built by the BC Electric Company.
The B.C. government seems to have billions for a new Site C dam. If they need half a per cent of sales tax to pay for transit, take it out of the seven per cent we pay now.
Bert Sherlock
North Vancouver
