Price Tags is asking every MLA in Metro Vancouver questions about the referendum.
Moira Stilwell, Liberal MLA for Vancouver-Langara:
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“I will be encouraging all my constituents to vote and make sure their views on this vital issue are heard.”
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Well OK then. That’s a, leave me alone I’m a NO supporter response…
What a disappointing non answer. Constituents should be able to rely on their MLA for some kind of policy guidance. Sheesh.
In favour of views being heard. Non-leadership at its most exemplary.
Seriously, what the hell is she doing in a position of leadership! If you want to vote no, at least have the conviction to stand behind your beliefs.
Her constituency office is right on the bloody Canada Line.
Latest poll is in – 55% No; 33% yes…Wow…great job on the Yes side…you are going to be defeated by a single dude on a shoestring budget…Than again I guess it’s time to learn how to do more with less…And isn’t that the point…Bateman for president!
The ‘no’ side is hardly one guy with a shoestring budget. The CTF has deep pockets. Their spokespuppet is paid a full time salary to destroy TransLink and public transit in Vancouver. We don’t really have any idea how much money they are spending.
If Christy Clark really wanted this to succeed, she would direct her members to support the plan: just as if she wanted to win a vote in the legislature, she would whip them. It seems to me this is a pretty clear indication of where the Premier really stands on the issue.
Last thing some people want is MPs with a free votes.
Or MLAs.
I dont know about y’all, but i am feeling like a call to cancel this plebiscite, while possibly futile, is the right thing to do. Its just really really really bad policy. Comments?
We know that this has to have been discussed but they just soldiered on. It was discussed on-line over a month ago, when the panic began. Maybe we could extend the deadline, keep spending money and campaigning.
Or we could actually develop a real decongestion plan that will reduce car use, namely one that taxes cars (driving and/or parking) far more AND offers real RAPID transit alternatives in:
E-Van (below Hastings to Burnaby, then to N-Van via Second Narrows) – imagine the mess after Viaducts are gone
SE Marine Drive (from current Canadaline Station close to Fraser River to Burnaby)
Richmond extension of CanadaLine south to Delta (eventually continuing to Tsawwassen and White Rock)
All the way to UBC (incl. current 16th Ave high density village, i.e. two stops at UBC and Jericho land) not just to Arbutus
41st Ave to Kerrisdale from Skytrain in Burnaby, eventually looping to UBC
N-Van + W-Van (below Marine Drive) connecting to downtown and Burnaby via new wider Lionsgate Bridge and Second Narrows
Langley to Surrey
basically all the B-lines.
The current transit plan is a band aid, and not bold enough. It will not decongest. It is just a status quo.
As long as B-lines are bus based no car user in their right mind will use them from any of the locations mentioned above. People value their time. Time on transit has to be minimized, and that is doable only with RAPID transit, not slow transit.
Perhaps the mayors want the plan to fail so they can blame the provincial government, although they do have the tools today to raise property taxes, land transfer taxes, user fees and parking fees to fund it all. They are just too timid to actually lead and implement the necessary changes. They rather have the hand out to the province. It is all quite poor governance.
Far more provincial – MetroVan cooperation on a bolder plan needs to happen for a true cosmopolitan city in the 21st century with 3.5M+ people. The status quo, as proposed, is very weak and as such may fail.
Rome wasn’t built in a day.