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Proposed YRT faré hikes don’t sit well With riders call: 1-800-743-3353 fax: 1-905-853-1765 E3033 Business 3. Telephone Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm www.yorkregion.com E I i r H As for Yin/Viva tickets. an adult‘ .ticket would jump 30 cents to $3.30: You could be; famed to shell out more to ride York Region lhnsit/ Viva if York Regional Council sign off on a stall recommendation call» ing for fates to jump by an aVeragc of 7.86 per can! almost across the Mpanofdrestafipmposalmfl cash fares would rise by 25 cents to $4 for a one-mac trip. $5 for a two- zone ride and $4.50 for an express run and all monthly passes. except for express. would jump by 10 per em with the cost of adult. student and senior/child passes hitting $132. $99 and $60.50 respectively. An express pass would‘ go from $145 to $152. x The recommendation £3 to be considered by regional council at today's committee of “the whole meeting and. if approved and adopted at the Sept. '26 council meeting. would increasethemst of every YRTIVM fan: except for thc region's share of the GTA Wkly TRANSPORTATION: Regional council has options today BY SEAN PEARCE spcurrrfi'vrmgxom D YourClassifiedsn KI. 0‘ “map Mum a Enid Challenger of New/market wasn't too worried about the pos- sibilitylof an increase on her ovm finances. given that she’s retired and doesn't use transit often. but she did express concem for those who rely 0n the service as part of their dailv commute to work or "[‘ransi! users were largely criti‘ cal of the increases prpposed. Vmeeia Dandamudi took YR'I’I Viva up from Scarborough for a fob interview and said any fine hike would only prove to be an added burden for her and other unem' ployed~peop|e looking for work. She also look exwplion with the long wait between buses. Richmond Hill's. Irina Livorhna was ‘als‘o unimpressed by the idea. “1 travel a lot and bus fares am much more here than they are in Eumpc." ,§he said. "us already twice as much and it shouldn't be their only option awry year." a student ticket wuuld rise 20 cums. to $2.50 and a savor/child ticket would 15 cents to 52. An cxpmss ticket would go from $3.50 to $3.80. iii-hall- Sales Associate Wanted If vou have: Okla-Hem mmmunualum ' Enthusiasm 'wflh guud penpk' \Mlls 0 Able tn and mmc rwmngs and Saturday ' Bawc aummubilc knmsicdgc We ()fler: ' (“nmpcmlw pay pun 0 Hcahh Bench! - Trmmng and Management support 0 Lam 35k to 70K pet ycar Send Rm Io Frank (I! Aum( ‘hrmera Aurora wmpan) ax wckmg a reliable. punctual and dcdualcd sandxdalc who Ix ahlc In mun. nmnmc hill“ Ablhl) In an some mun) mung. hm. ht! llccnxcjn .h‘ffl hut nut rcqunmd Ema" mum- to' Newmanmech WAREHOUSE HELP Aurora Chrysler Iihe mommended increases. if adopted. would put the region's cash fare well abm'r the (ETA aver- age of $3.21 and would also see it above the average price when ll comes (0 6(2th and adull and student momth passe: It would. hmvcvcr. be bckwv the average $6225 for a senior/child That said. not woryonv was apposed to the prbpnscd hike. The repon before k‘ouncil also makes mention that YR’I'IViva is usually the first transit to set out its new fan: schedule each "York Region knows what is needed.” one transit user said. "We'd all like to see no increases. but they know whch they stand,“ mommy pas; Regional staff wouldn't com- “Those will 50 the people afiecl - ‘I travel a lot and bus fares are much more hvrc than they are in liurope.’ SHARP... .x...,..,... Seven years ago; the region set out to eventually recover 50 per cent of the cost of providing Iran: sit through; fares with the remain der being subsidized through the property tax base. And while rid- ership has grown. so has the cost of transit in the region meaning the revenue-w-cost recovery ratio has continued to hover around the w-per-cem mark. the report said. It further notes that KPMG con- ducted an independent review of the region's fare stmctme in the spring and came up with a series of recommendations predomi- nantly invoking the reduction of discounts applied to tickets and passes as these were identified as leading the average fare to trend ment in advance of today's com- mittee meeting. but the repon notes VHF/Viva ridership has increased 20 per cent over the past five years with revenues rising {mm $45.8 million in 2t!!! to $57.6 mil- lion in 2012. That mm in rev- enues. the report says. comes from a combination of both higher rid- ership and increased fares. 11 mICO . cw'rouen seam: Req d b) a well-establmhed. rapid!) expandmg Medical C u in Rschmond Hill;anme must he urgamlcd. reliable and ham- cxcdk‘m written and cnmmumcaunn dam Dlmfl Include otch cum. mwmng and quuimg. Prcnuus tum leader expend“: and an“! 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