Holy crap! And that is after what meter thieves help themselves to. If that is the revenue from change, I can’t imagine what parking tickets bring in, or other bi-law infractions or motor vehicle fines. And throwing in all the revenue from other sources, not even taking into account revenue from taxes, I can’t believe that the only way to build a convention centre is to siphon off money from a fund put aside for transportation maintenance. —Flabbergasted
This article appears in Feb 10-16, 2011.
Here’s a thought:
If Halifax saved its change in a jar for 10 years, like the average person does, half of the expected contribution would be achieved (at the very least). It is only a matter of matching the total (a pittance, it appears), and Halifax could have its convention centre–almost pain free.
Would it hurt for this city to provide some parking under all the condos that seem to be springing up?
$2.6 million. Wow, that’s some easy money for the city. It would be nice if Halifax would begin installing the “Pay By Phone” parking meters. Thankfully there are still a lot of free parking locations around Halifax/Dartmouth where the city is not collecting money from, yet.
http://www.buildingcanada-chantierscanada.…
“Building Canada funding in this category will be directed towards the construction or improvement of convention centres or exhibition hall-type facilities that:
Increase the number of visitors to the community, and the length and quality of stay of those visitors;
Promote Canada or the region as a leading destination for Canadian and international visitors.
Funding criteria will require that proponents of convention centre or exhibition-hall type projects demonstrate that their projects will have a significant economic and/or regional impact.”
FOR THE LAST TIME, ROADS ARE NOT THE END-ALL AND BE-ALL OF THE CANADA BUILDING FUND. CONVENTION CENTERS ARE SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED. If you’re going to have an opinion on development at least read something that dosen’t have Tim Bosquet’s mucky fingerprints all over it first.
And why are taxes so high? *rolls eyes*
2.6 million a year is certainly enough to pay for everyone’s health care needs and then some! ;D
Considering how much money this city spends on snow removal, though, $2.6 mil is chump change.
I think you hit a nerve, OP, ha ha ha!
I think the convention centre was just an example. If the change from parking meters for one year totals close to 3 million dollars, and it is only one small way in which the city gains revenue, why is the city/province talking so po’ mouth over 57 million dollars?
Yeah, they can thank me for about 80$ of that. PArking is such a stressor.
Ok, last week, on my way to classes I saw a meter person standing in front of a car, writing a ticket. I walked right by and the meter had 2mins left. He was writing a pre-emptive ticket! The meter right beside it had and hr and some so I know it wasn’t that one. Now I think that’s wrong.
In the grand scheme of things 2.6 million in revenue is peanuts given Halifax’s population…the population of Halifax as of July 2010 was 403,188. 2.6 million / 403,188 = ~$6.45/person.
Let’s say each of these people park downtown 250 days of the year (weekdays, excluding 2 weeks for ‘vacation’): 6.45 / 250 = ~ $0.03/day.
Don’t forget: meters are free on weekends which I doubt is a sweeping policy across the country, given the fact that I constantly see people with Ontario license plates putting money into the meters on weekends.
Talk about taking shit out of proportion, OP.
Yeah, I still have to stop myself from putting money in meters on the weekend.
Wait a minute…3 cents per day from each person in Halifax comes to 2.6 million dollars?…if you consider how much each person pays annually through all sources x 403,188 +provincial and federal contributions, aren’t you making OP’s point about Halifax po’mouthing over $57 million , PK?
Yeah, apparently I can’t read….or at least I should pay attention to the entire bitch and not just summarize in my head what I think they’re saying.
My bad, OP. I guess I *did* make your point…3 cents a day really does make you wonder how much parking and parking violations add up over the course of the year. I work at a University in HRM and our tickets are administered by the city…and I’m sure there are plenty given out around here with the price of passes TO park here and the limited availability of spaces in general on campus and the fact that HRM universities tend to be more commuter campuses rather than rural universities in NS like STFX and Acadia.
SO PK WAS WRONG AND KIND OF A BITCH. She can admit it. Again, apologies, OP.
God forbid (or should I say in this day and age “Creator who may or may not exist forbid) that the money derived from income sources be re-invested in that resource. I believe the money collected from tolls in the USA has to go back into maintaining roads.
We need to import the protesters from Cairo and let them give PKelly and Douchebag Dex a weekly shitbath. See what happens when The People band together and actually DO something about arseholes pol’s?
yeah that was right, and out of that, maybe 100 grand, might see the road work. the rest is pocketed by petey boy for his stupid fucking staduium. and that is the way it is, and will be. maybe someone should get some tar, feathers and maybe a noose. would that make everyone happy?
then again, fools just keep electing this dumb as fuck asshole, so who is really to blame? not me, i voted for anyone else. yep, 2.6 million paves a lot of pockets, too bad it ain’t mine or yours o.p.
if you wanna do something about it, then i would guuess you should get your sorry ass elected, to show us how it is all done. barring that, sit back and suck your nuts or whatever, like the rest of the general public, til next voting day.
It could be worse. We could be faced with two (maybe three) levels of government getting ready to sink $400 million of tax payers money into a hockey arena, with no private sector commitments at all, and no hockey team, all in the belief that “if you build it they will come” as is the case in Quebec City.
Frankly, I’m fed up with public money funding ‘private enterprise’, especially an enterprise pursued by millionaires
The refrain from the business community seems to be “lower our taxes but build us a convention centre with tax revenues”.
Get stuffed.
ah yes, the build it excuse. you are right, they won’t come. who would really want to come to a place that still has people with iron trap closed minds, who cannot get past a word or two that is spoken. and then twisted to the others way of whining.
yeah, the city can build all the nice shiney buildings it wants to, on someone else’s dime. i’m sick of putting out my cash, that i sometimes worked my ass off for. to be used for a place that i most likely, wil never see the inside of. same with all the other dreams that kelly has, put them to bed, where they belong.
you will never see anything that even looks like it will make a profit in this city, unless you count fines and taxes, which are aplenty.
Was this in the news? I don’t believe it.