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Green Line talks have spurred a conversation on how to better cash in on outsiders who use city services — they’re looking at you, Okotoks and Airdrie. On Wednesday, city councillors toyed with the idea of having a mechanism in place to charge those who may use the Green Line from outside city limits, as there may be more commuters who don’t help subsidize rides. “One of our challenges when we start looking at the city pro-
viding transit to people who live outside of the city is that essentially our tax base is subsidizing someone else,” said Coun. Brian Pincott at the transportation meeting. “We are the only province where the government doesn’t participate in supporting the operation of transit.” According to transportation boss Mac Logan, talks are underway. “That’s part of the city charters conversation about the regional nature and the regional benefit and the need for the province to help us,” said Logan. “I think there’s better ways to do it than to legislate municipalities the ability to charge other outside individuals,” said Coun. Shane Keating. “But there has to be some way, more of a global contribution to these expenses rather than just the City of Calgary bearing all the expenses.”
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