Wealthy local millionaire Percy Best weighs in:
Summer communications student suggests local transit services for young people & the elderly |
"It is long past the time for Mount Allison to ‘step up to the plate’ for this one. That is if they want to attract more students, decrease the need for a student to bring a car and even to have to provide parking spots for them. Mount A is currently spending many millions of dollars to increase parking availability and I believe, come Jan 1st, they are going to be actually charging the students to use a parking spot.
The University has to realize that this is small TOWN Sackville, and not a CITY like Fredericton, Saint John, Moncton or Halifax which have well established public transit systems that their universities students can take advantage of and get around without having to own a vehicle.
So Mount A, if you would like to at least hang on to your current enrollment numbers, I would suggest you perhaps research some sort of economical system of enabling future students that don’t have a vehicle, to get to where they need to go.
Mount A has a MASSIVE tax assessment break given to them by the NB Government, and the citizens of Sackville have had to ‘pick up the slack’ because of it via increased property tax bills. Perhaps the University could take some of the savings that they have there and use a wee bit of it for a student transportation system."
