Recent data from Statistics Canada show that, despite higher fuel taxes and billions of dollars of subsidies, government attempts to shift commuters from personal vehicles to mass transit have largely failed. Yet planners stubbornly continue to act on projections this shift is occurring, pouring more public funds into mass transit while closing traffic lanes and erecting barriers explicitly designed to strangle traffic flows. Endless traffic jams encourage drivers and businesses to leave city cores and commute longer distances in the suburbs, the very opposite of what planners say they want. Governments need to respond to how Canadians actually commute, or risk further alienating themselves from taxpayers and commuters.
Can’t understand why people aren’t buying in. Rolling to work in a homeless shelter sounds swell.
