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For these selecting up airport passengers, it isn’t tough to attend within the cellphone lot, then proceed to rapidly decide up your ready associate. Disturbingly, individuals have determined that ready on the passenger pickup level is less complicated. Or higher but, parking at passenger pickup and going straight into the terminal to seek for their associate.
On a latest night time, it wasn’t notably crowded however each passenger pickup spot at WestJet was occupied by a parked automotive, some with drivers, some with out, and no passengers have been being loaded. That is alleged to be pickup and go zone — no ready and no parking. We’ve passengers now strolling into the lanes of site visitors to flag down their journey as a result of all of the passenger pickup spots are occupied with automobiles that aren’t loading.
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The place is the parking attendant to implement the principles? Somebody will get run over and, frankly, airport administration needs to be blamed together with our self-absorbed idle hogs.
Doug Welsh, Calgary
‘Common’ tax hikes don’t mirror actuality
Council made quite a few statements throughout final month’s price range deliberations that subsequent 12 months’s 7.8 per cent property tax improve would solely quantity to $16 extra every month for the common family valued at $610,000.
We’ve lived in the identical southwest condominium for 20 years. Despite the fact that our condominium is assessed beneath $610,000, our new tax discover signifies that our month-to-month TIPP funds shall be rising in January by $31 a month.
Did council and metropolis administration know this was doubtless and, in that case, have been they merely comfortable to mislead taxpayers?
What number of different “common” households have seen their new month-to-month tax funds improve by greater than the much-ballyhooed $16 a month?
Jim Williams, Calgary
Financial savings on gas tax smoke and mirrors
Re: Gasoline value will rise 9 cents per litre on Jan. 1 as UCP reimposes tax, Dec. 14
I do know math is difficult, however Premier Danielle Smith has introduced arithmetic to a brand new stage of complexity. An announcement from the UCP authorities states that by reimposing a 9 cent per litre provincial gasoline tax on Jan. 1, Albertans shall be saving 4 cents per litre. (Ed. be aware: The complete tax of 13 cents is being phased again in).
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With this logic, the affordability disaster is over and we are able to all return to consuming cake.
Rob Butler, Calgary
The issues of no-fault insurance coverage
No-fault auto insurance coverage is a ripoff to drivers and car house owners in Alberta who’re pressured, by regulation, to buy overpriced insurance coverage.
My spouse was just lately rear-ended on a avenue in Crimson Deer. She was not at fault and our automotive was nonetheless driveable. My pondering was that we might swap car data, VINs, insurance coverage firms, names, addresses, licence numbers, and so on. Then the insurance coverage firm for the individual at fault would pay for the harm. But it surely doesn’t seem to work that means anymore in Alberta.
Now we now have to contact our personal insurance coverage firm and so they pay for our harm, and the opposite insurance coverage firm will get off scot-free if the motive force at fault doesn’t make a declare. However it can present up as a declare towards our insurance coverage, despite the fact that my spouse wasn’t at fault. And our premiums will doubtless improve because of this.
Our insurance coverage firm wrote off our car despite the fact that the harm was minimal, repairable and the car was nonetheless very a lot driveable.
I believed our insurance coverage firm was alleged to symbolize our pursuits. Not the pursuits of the at-fault driver and their insurance coverage firm.
No-fault insurance coverage is a rip-off to customers and needs to be eradicated in Alberta.
Dale Stuart, Crimson Deer
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