About half of Richmond News readers polled think transit fares should go up to balance TransLink finances.
This was in light of news that TransLink is looking at a $580 million deficit and needs to figure out whether to cut services.
The News polled 944 of its readers and asked the question: How should we pay for a looming $580M TransLink deficit?
Almost 48 per cent said transit fares should be increased while 19 per cent suggested cutting transit services.
However, about 15 per cent of those polled thought road taxes could be the solution.
The poll ran from July 25 to Aug. 25, 2024.
Of the 944 votes cast in the poll, we can determine that 329 are from within the community.
The full results are as follows:
Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.18%, 19 times out of 20.
Richmond News uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
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