serendipitously lost

I am disheartened, frustrated and disappointed with my provincial government's absolute refusal to assist public transit agencies in my province with any operational funding of any kind citing that this funding is fully a municipal responsibility.

I read in news media that the options our municipalities have are few: raise the public transit fee of annual car registrations, raise a gas tax devoted towards public transit, raise public transit fees or cut public transit service.

The first option would cause an uproar for all of the entitled car owners

The second option would be diminishing as fuel cars gradually get replaced with EVs

The third option would put the poorest of transit users into more difficulty

The fourth option would begin a public transit death spiral, for as service is cut, fewer people will use transit, and so transit service will be cut again, and so on. This would have the effect of putting more cars on the road creating way more congestion.

The provincial transport minister asked why should all Quebecois pay for the shortfall of Montreal transit agencies and others? I found this Wiki page that shows there are transit agencies all across the province, so the provincial government could provide funding to all of them at a per capita rate. Given there are transit agencies in so many different towns and cities, it is more meaningful that most Quebecois live in a place that has public transit and so it makes sense for the provincial government to assist.

In other news Ontario has just received an enormous investment from Honda to build electric vehicles, the batteries that go into them and other supply chain needs to the tune of 15B CAD from Honda, 2.5B CAD from Ontario and 2.5B CAD from the Federal government. The existing facility in Alliston will be upgraded to have EVs built and two other municipalities will get additional Honda facilities. This is a generational investment as it will mean for decades these facilities will be used to produce EVs for all of the North American market.

Of course I am pleased that EVs are being built to replace ICE cars so as to clean up the emissions and that it will create reliable jobs in Ontario, however, as Canadian cities become more urbanized, I am convinced that it is much better for the environment and for the efficiency of moving people that people ought to cease owning personal vehicles and that transit gets improved to be both fast and frequent.