Considering the bus was approved with a flawed alternative approval process where hundreds of residents knew nothing about it, the failure at this time is welcome. Why bring in BC transit? We already have a private bus that could operate runs along the coast and people could pay the appropriate fees with their employers subsidizing their workers. As it is now proposed, the property owners of Tofino pay a larger portion than everyone else. By all means bring on a bus to get workers to Tofino. Ask Cermaq how their worker bus runs daily from Port Alberni. If such a system works for Cermaq, it should make sense for the other employers in Tofino to offer the same ride system from the south end of the peninsula for their employees. It is not the homeowner's job to pay for that which should be provided by the businesses that want the service. It is not the job of the ACRD to provide such a service on the backs of the local homeowners when businesses could be paying for their workers to travel on their own Chamber of Commerce paid for and operated buses. Hopefully we get a better ACRD representative who thinks of his or her constituents than a previous one who got this 'free ride on the taxpayer's backs' idea going.
Simply need to treat this transportation issue in the same manner that DOT has treated the looming need for increased water supply issue: "Yes, it's a great idea, but we don't know how to implement it and we don't have any money to implement it with, so we'll just talk about it for a bit, do nothing, and hope it goes away."
Westerly article exposes fundamental flaws in this scheme. Tofino taxpayers expected to pay double per household compared to other communities in the region. This formula is a nonstarter... If this is to get workers into "tuff" how is it that the fish processors have been covering this expense themselves for years while our tourist industry would dodge their responsibilities again.
The fish plant workers were/are still being bussed into Tofino and Ucluelet from Port Alberni despite the highway construction. It would seem nothing can stop them, so why aren’t the other local businesses doing the same thing? Our worker and housing shortage on the coast could be solved at the same time.
Didn’t the government spend 100 million on a bike path recently? That would seem to fit the needs of commuters, and the tax base paying for it is spread out over the nation. Maybe the towns could have some bikes available for those without. It’s healthy, it’s green and it’s already in place.
Considering the bus was approved with a flawed alternative approval process where hundreds of residents knew nothing about it, the failure at this time is welcome.
ReplyDeleteWhy bring in BC transit?
We already have a private bus that could operate runs along the coast and people could pay the appropriate fees with their employers subsidizing their workers. As it is now proposed, the property owners of Tofino pay a larger portion than everyone else.
By all means bring on a bus to get workers to Tofino. Ask Cermaq how their worker bus runs daily from Port Alberni. If such a system works for Cermaq, it should make sense for the other employers in Tofino to offer the same ride system from the south end of the peninsula for their employees.
It is not the homeowner's job to pay for that which should be provided by the businesses that want the service.
It is not the job of the ACRD to provide such a service on the backs of the local homeowners when businesses could be paying for their workers to travel on their own Chamber of Commerce paid for and operated buses.
Hopefully we get a better ACRD representative who thinks of his or her constituents than a previous one who got this 'free ride on the taxpayer's backs' idea going.
Simply need to treat this transportation issue in the same manner that DOT has treated the looming need for increased water supply issue: "Yes, it's a great idea, but we don't know how to implement it and we don't have any money to implement it with, so we'll just talk about it for a bit, do nothing, and hope it goes away."
ReplyDeletetofinomike, you've nailed it.
ReplyDeleteWesterly article exposes fundamental flaws in this scheme. Tofino taxpayers expected to pay double per household compared to other communities in the region.
ReplyDeleteThis formula is a nonstarter... If this is to get workers into "tuff" how is it that the fish processors have been covering this expense themselves for years while our tourist industry would dodge their responsibilities again.
The fish plant workers were/are still being bussed into Tofino and Ucluelet from Port Alberni despite the highway construction. It would seem nothing can stop them, so why aren’t the other local businesses doing the same thing? Our worker and housing shortage on the coast could be solved at the same time.
ReplyDelete7:40 PM I'd vote for you
ReplyDeleteDidn’t the government spend 100 million on a bike path recently? That would seem to fit the needs of commuters, and the tax base paying for it is spread out over the nation. Maybe the towns could have some bikes available for those without. It’s healthy, it’s green and it’s already in place.
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