Canada’s mayors are calling on the federal government to urgently approve a new round of emergency funding for local transit systems, as ridership levels have yet to return to prepandemic levels.
Mr. Savage noted that unlike Ottawa and the provinces, municipal governments are not allowed to run deficits and continued low transit ridership is creating big budget shortfalls. Mayors are looking for some form of a repeat of what occurred in 2020, when the federal government announced a $19-billion Safe Restart Agreement transfer to the provinces. Premiers then used some of that money for municipalities to cover budget shortfalls in areas like transit.
Mr. Savage said transit ridership in Halifax is around 60 to 65 per cent of prepandemic levels and the city’s budget assumes ridership will increase to around 80 per cent in 2022.
Maybe layoff those employees who are not/were not needed... stop running transit when nobody is using it.
Enough already they got enough money. They should have used it wisely ,
more of other people’s money
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