OPEN LETTER TO ALL MEDIA: Two Handydart users call for “More Equitable” Transit.
Dear Editor,
When I opened my search
engine late yesterday afternoon one of the items on My Telus was about an
announcement from TransLink.
The announcement from Telus
also included considerable information on TransLink changes, including wages
for CEO Ian Jarvis and 6 other executives including annual compensation. But
what really drew my attention was – “This and other changes are designed to
make the system “more equitable”, TransLink states.”
Is that supposed to placate
the ire of middle-class and lower income people on finding that once again cost
of transit is going up? More equitable by my dictionary is “fair and just”.
What is fair and just about the owning class making mega-super profits and
wages while convincing the governments, they are by and large responsible for
electing, to lower their taxes while increasing the burden on the middle and
lower classes?
To get “fair and just”
transit in South Coast BC you should publish our call for a public Audit or
Investigation. It is time to give transit users; both able bodied and disabled
a voice! That is Fair and Just! Examine the publications or airing of the media
and you will find business and high finance information far exceeds the
minuscule coverage for those who must work in order to survive.
John Beeching and Elizabeth
Beeching
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