July 24, 2013

Referendum: What should the question be?

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Here is the suggestion of Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart (previously a Liberal MLA), as reported by NRU:

Stewart, the mayors should use the referendum to ask the public to decide whether it wants to increase transportation capacity through more transit or more roads. Stewart said the cost of expanding the road network would be double the price of transit improvements.

The Coquitlam mayor said the alternative to more transit is “double the number of roadways, to pave more and more of the Lower Mainland, and I hear over and over again that the public doesn’t want that.

“So our choice on a referendum has to be: Do you want us to keep paving and widening all the roadways? Or do you want us to find alternatives?

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