look at “Living in the countryside is a choice so stop whining“.
Hello “Life is unfair”. Why should children in rural areas ride “for free” while children in urban areas have to pay for their bus tickets? Yes, because the country does not have all the infrastructure that makes it possible to get around regardless of the season and time of day.
I pay for your bike lanes and street lights within Uddevalla so that your children can cycle safely and go to school, activities and friends, in the dark, in the middle of the cold winter . The entire community building around you is largely paid for by people who don’t take advantage of it.
All the arguments you give can be easily turned against you: Why should the city pay for you shoveling and street lights? It is not a human right to have a stroke. When you live in Sweden, you know it gets dark and cold in the winter! Why should you serve everything? Of course this is not my opinion – I think it is important and good for municipal services to work.
Ultimately, this is a trade-off. How do we get the most return on our investment tax dollars? There is indeed safe cycling and walking infrastructure in Uddevalla – clearly tax dollars well spent. It would have been great to light and shovel bike lanes on our small country roads as well, so you can easily get to the nearest Västtrafik stop. But there will be many long miles of bike lanes, expensive to build and expensive to maintain. Do you want your tax dollars to go to such a great investment?
A much cheaper idea is to get the most social benefit from the school buses the city has yet to drive out here. This is a solution that smart city politicians have been pitching for decades. And should a large number of paying passengers in an emergency situation force additional buses, this is hardly a good argument against public transport in the country, is it?
In conclusion, I am a little puzzled by your idea of justice. Judging by your signature, you seem to believe that life is truly unfair, and you are clear that we out in the country have to accept that we cannot everything to serve. At the same time, the whole application is full of thin-skinned frustration at a service in the country that you think we don’t deserve. Is the thought of a pensioner riding the school bus such an incredible injustice that you have to sit down and write an application? Life is unfair, just not for you?
Erik Kapturowski of charge
representative of “Parents of children who are out ahead of the country
2024-10-09 08:00:00
#pay #street #lights #snow #shoveling #downtown
