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Deux-Montagnes MNA Lucie Leblanc, the Action Démocratique du Québec's official spokesperson for transportation matters, is denouncing the Charest Liberals' plan to impose tolls on bridges leading onto the island of Montreal as an example of a government which has no vision.
Lack of vision
"The residents of 450, north of Montreal as much as south of it, are victims of the lack of vision of the present government and the governments that came before, as concerns the development of public transit that is efficient and suffices to answer the needs of citizens," she said. "With the incapacity of the government and the City of Montreal to come to a fiscal understanding, and with the lack al alternatives, the population of the suburbs will now have to pay a punitive tax in order to live in 450."
Transit inadequate
Leblanc maintained that public transit for the area as currently set out is inadequate. "The minister of transport is proposing solutions for 2012, but it is today, now in 2008, when public transit is inadequate and inefficient," she said. "People have resigned themselves to using their cars, and what they are living morning and evening is traffic congestion at the various access points. To add to this, all the government has to offer them, with gas at $1.45, is a supplementary tax of $3 in the morning, $3 in the evening, five days a week, 50 weeks a year."
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