Seems like some dumbass politicians are finding more assinine ways to raise money for their pockets... Seems that now they are proposing to install a toll station on every bridge entering the island of Mtl so that they can collect 3$ per day per car to go towards public transport.
Pardon my language, but F#@*#@# HORSESHIT! They just want to get more F#@*#@# taxes out of our wallets. I will bet you anything that the money never goes fully to public transport. I am already paying a shitload for transport I don't even have bloody access to. I pay on my license plate renewal and driver's licence renewal for me to be able to use the goddamn metro once a year. I even pay municipal taxes for public transport... yes, the city of Saint-Lazare is the ONLY frickin city that pays into Montreal's public transport system WITHOUT EVEN HAVING A SINGLE GODDAMN BUS, TRAIN OR METRO ON IT'S TERRITORY. The government collects a shitload of taxes on my gas as well, on top of removing toll stations in the 80's in Quebec and raising income taxes to cover the loss of the toll income, AND THEN SOME.
If this happens, it is literally holding all transportation hostage!!! Let me explain... they say that these measures are for people that live off island and work on-island... problem is that THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO GO FROM THE WESTERN SIDE TO THE EASTERN SIDE OF MONTREAL WITHOUT PASSING THROUGH THE ISLAND!!! Highway 30 is not completed yet (if it ever does...) and even then, that highway is a private/public sector partnership, which will include a toll booth on the western side which will pay for the 2 bridges needed to complete the by-way. Montreal is officially the ONLY city on an island in North-America which has NO by-way, making it possible to go from one side to another without crossing through.
So here is my message to the provincial and municipal governments:
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU ASSHOLES. BY TAKING YOUR TAXPAYERS FOR COMPLETE MORONS AND MILKING THEM FOR ALL THEY ARE WORTH, THE WHOLE BULLSHIT LANGUAGE THING, AND ALL OTHER DUMBASS MEASURES YOU PULL OUT OF YOUR HAT, YOU ARE OFFICIALLY MAKING ME WANT TO QUIT MY JOB, SELL MY HOUSE AND MOVE TO ONTARIO, OR EVEN WORSE, THE U.S..
At least there, they openly screw you over, instead of trying to justify it. I rather just get screwed than get lied to and screwed. Then they wonder why people don't vote.
There's lots of reasons my family ditched Montreal for Ottawa back in the early eighties. I hate visiting Montreal too. I have some family members that still live there, and I love seeing them, but I hate the city. The roads are always in terrible shape, the drivers are crazy, the people are rude, the city is ugly etc. The only good thing about Mtl is the food. Sometimes I wonder if the politicians in Quebec/Montreal even want people to live there.
So come to Ottawa, we have a thriving pin community here!
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