NEW: Edmonton mayor Amarjeet Sohi has released this statement indicating the Government of Alberta is cutting its funding for the low income transit pass program in both Edmonton and Calgary.
@AdamMacVicar
Maybe the transit service should not cost so much in the first place, seeing the whole service has been run into the ground, don't forget the city of Edmonton wasting 60 million for ev busses, then another 200k on battery blankets
@AdamMacVicar
"this additional reduction in funding is unfortunate". Sohi is diplomatic in the face of this vindictive move by Smith and her goons. UCP cutting its funding for the low income transit pass program in both Edmonton and Calgary is outrageous.
#abpoli
#UCP
#vindictive
@AdamMacVicar
What else is new. JK defunded low income earners. Dani taking away bus passes means the same thing maybe she can increase there income so they can buy bus passes
@AdamMacVicar
This is a terrible move for Calgary so many people including myself rely on the unreliable transit system to get to work or around the city as some of us cannot afford vehicles or to live downtown.
Your basically asking people to pick and choose what’s important in life
@AdamMacVicar
What is actually wrong with the
#UCP
? I'm left wondering who they've sold their souls to. It's certainly not the < fortunate, or the farmers, or the rural folks needing HC, and 100%, it's not me, the taxpayer.
It seems to me they want Handmaid's Tal-berta.
#ableg
#abpoli