Buy a Condo, Get a Bus Pass

(Toronto, Ontario) Without debate, the City Council passed a measure which mandates that all new condo buyers be given a year's free Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) metropass. The regulation also states that the cost of the metropass cannot be passed on to the buyer. It's not known how that provision will be enforced.

Arguably, the new regulation merely imposes a tax to pay for public transportation with a hope that people will abandon their cars. The tax is officially called a "transportation demand management measure."

Councillor Howard Moscoe said the measure is "not really to generate revenue," rather it's intended "to get people thinking about public transit."

My ass. Two rules of common sense. 1) If it is said that it's not about the money, you can be sure it's about the money and, 2) When someone rifles your wallet, you do get to thinking about something. I suggest that you think someone shouldn't be rifling your wallet.

By the way, the photo is not directly related to the story. Rather, it shows part of the $100 million TTC St.Clair Street streetcar right-of-way construction project. The project was started in 2005 before the invention of a straight-edge. Tax dollars at work.