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Re: Mounting rise up towards town’s new residential parking charge could convey modifications, June 3
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Apparently, the Calgary Parking Authority gained the appropriate to cost for residential and customer parking in my neighbourhood of Bridgeland, courtesy of metropolis council voting.
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The explanation given by the CPA is that it’s working at a loss. Having been a small-business proprietor, I’m conscious that there are alternatives aside from elevating revenues to take care of losses. Chopping prices is an instance.
My husband and I are low-income earners who hardly ever park on the road. We now have a one-car storage the place we stow our one car. Our guests are incidental as properly. As owners, we’ve been in a position to park our car or a customer’s in entrance of our residence with out penalty. That can change Aug. 1.
What precisely has the CPA completed to mitigate losses aside from taxpayers as money cows?
Maybe 24-hour parking restrictions must be in place in Bridgeland such {that a} non-resident is topic to a positive except a resident authorizes parking by way of a free customer go, or a non-resident parker pays per use with a metered ticket.
Charging owners and bona-fide renters shouldn’t be an possibility. Metropolis corridor must rescind its resolution to supply road parking to residents/guests for a charge.
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Willow Walker, Calgary
Non-public well being care may help
We don’t lack docs and nurses in Canada, what we lack is jobs for them.
I lately checked what number of docs and nurses the Alberta universities graduated every year — on common 400 docs and 4,000 nurses. Extrapolate that to all medical colleges in Canada and also you get the image.
The one employment for these folks is within the tightly managed authorities system or with the personal sector which, in flip, can solely function with authorities contracts.
Defenders of the present system typically level to lengthy wait lists to see docs as proof that there’s not sufficient certified workers for each private and non-private sectors, and that having a parallel personal sector would intestine the general public system. All proof on the contrary.
Dale McGonigal, Calgary