It's about time Translink looks a its funding as a budget and not a trough. People are fed up with the constant hand out for any excuse and no service south of the Fraser! Translink should look at the better than market share wages they give out.

And what happens if the Feb. 28th "deadline" isn't met ?? Do the Mayors all hold their collective breaths until they turn purple ??

So now the mayors want to charge drivers for going from municipal zone to zone. They say they need this because people are buying fuel efficient cars to avoid the gas tax. Do they not see where their latest hair brained idea will get them? It is just like the ferries. If they raise prices on travel from district to district, they will just make people stay at home all the time and only cross municipal borders for necessary things. Look for your 'events' to lose patrons. Especially you Vancouver.

You can also expect people to move out of the region which will eliminate the tax grab from them altogether. That will leave even less people to tax. Finally all you have left to pay the cross zone tolls will be workers and people who use their vehicles for work. This will encourage businesses to move out of the translink region(since many of their workers will be moving out anyway) and the tax you take from people who use their vehicles for work will be tax deductible so that gains the government nothing and will probably stifle economic growth. I'm sure we'll see more regional events located outside the translink region also.

Do these people not see that if they go for zonal funding the same thing that happened to the gas tax will happen to the road pricing? If you give people the incentive to not do an activity by forcing unreasonable taxes they will move towards efficiency. You will lose all the benefits that you hoped to gain. By discouraging region to region travel you are stifling regional economic commerce and trade

Don't the cities have input on translink? Might be wrong. I'm not that connected with it. Seems to me though the cities in the lower mainland have representation on the board? Would be interesting to find out if that's true.