New cityLINK will marginalize some

By Letter to the Editor on August 28, 2021.

Editor:
Public transportation increases the availability of a mobile workforce. Anyone who complains that there is no one willing to take the jobs that are available needs to know that the city’s cuts to transit will not help, and it reduces the availability and mobility of the workforce.
With the new cityLINK system, the city has prioritized those who have work-from-home options, and who already have the privilege of driving and parking at work, over those who need public transit for jobs they need to survive, and who have limited mobility options.
This is the way a city marginalizes and isolates an already-vulnerable population, and increases the crime and poverty that benefits wealthy campaign donors who contribute to the political campaigns of those who make cuts like the kind that created cityLINK.
It is the commodification of poverty. If the city and province invested in real anti-poverty measures, the benefits would not be for those who benefit from economic distress and an unhealthy second class of citizens.
Debora Simon
Lethbridge