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Repealing the Employee Stock Option Deduction and Unanswered Questions | yxesimonsays
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Thinking out loud in Saskatoon. Repealing the Employee Stock Option Deduction and Unanswered Questions. Dead For Tax Reasons. If it is, it makes me feel at least someone is listening at least some of the time. 3,000 more words. This entry was posted in Tax. April 1, 2015. Can Saskatoon Transit walk the walk? The Cost of Extending Transit Service →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Follow me on Twitter.
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Thinking out loud in Saskatoon. Viewpoint: Transit services need to be election issue Saskatoon StarPhoenix. The issue of public transit challenged city council the most in its 2012-16 term. Residents who use transit and want it improved formed Bus Riders of Saskatoon in the fall of 2014. We want to live in a city where using public transit is easy. It should be a viable transportation choice for all, and. Via Viewpoint: Transit services need to be election issue Saskatoon StarPhoenix. October 21, 2016.
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Are Used Buses Really Saving Money? | yxesimonsays
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Thinking out loud in Saskatoon. Are Used Buses Really Saving Money? For years, Saskatoon Transit has been purchasing used buses as a means of replacing or adding vehicles in a cost effective way. But is purchasing and refurbishing used buses really saving money? Of the recent meeting of the City of Saskatoon’s Standing Policy Committee on Transportation is the recommendation to Council that a tender for the structural refurbishment of five. 8220;…to renew the articulated bus fleet by purchasing 306...
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The Cost of Extending Transit Service | yxesimonsays
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Thinking out loud in Saskatoon. The Cost of Extending Transit Service. With the 10 Days for Transit. Campaign about to begin, some ideas for improving Saskatoon Transit have started to pop up on Twitter. Among them is extending transit service later into the night or increasing the pathetic frequency of service in the evening hours. I started to wonder, what would be the cost of extending transit service? Fortunately the Ontario Municipal Benchmarking Initiative. Currently transit service in the evenings...
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Can Saskatoon Transit walk the walk? | yxesimonsays
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Thinking out loud in Saskatoon. Can Saskatoon Transit walk the walk? In the City of Saskatoon’s long term goals for Saskatoon Transit is the objective to increase ridership to 62 rides (annually) per capita by 2023 (see Proposed Performance Measures and Targets on pg 481 here. Currently ridership is just shy of 40 per capita, and as I wrote to the StarPhoenix. In 1966 it was 80. A ridership increase rate of 8.8% annually. Yes, annually. Every year at budget time the most important measure of transit seem...
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Public Transit and Development Levies | yxesimonsays
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Thinking out loud in Saskatoon. Public Transit and Development Levies. For the upcoming Saskatoon City Council Executive Committee meeting is a report to council from Hemson Consulting on “Financing Growth” that council commissioned in late 2013. This report indirectly identifies an area in which provincial legislation and the actions of the city can be improved, especially with respect to Public Transit and how it is funded. Section 169, the city is allowed to collect development levies. As detailed in ...
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Letter: Why not a memorial to victims of totalitarianism? | yxesimonsays
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Thinking out loud in Saskatoon. Letter: Why not a memorial to victims of totalitarianism? I’m no architect so I’ll leave the design criticism alone (for now), but this pretty much sums up this monumental mistake. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. February 20, 2015. Saskatoon Transit and the declining price of oil. Can Saskatoon Transit walk the walk? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Politics, Hum...
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Organizers - 10 Days for Transit
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10 Days for Transit is organized by a coalition of organizations and individuals. Bus Riders of Saskatoon. University of Saskatchewan Students Union. The Partnership: Saskatoon Downtown Business Improvement District. Remembering Stephen Webster, Transit Supervisor and Former Bus Driver. Nutana Collegiate Talks Transit. Oskayak High School and Str8 Up Talk Transit. Tania Guertin and Lyn McGaughey Report Back on their Ride. Mystery Force Field Bars Potential Transit Riders, Report Suggests.
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Learning Experience | Strong Roots Consulting
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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. The Strong Roots Story. May 1, 2015. Last August, an urban and regional planning student, Shannon McAvoy. Came by the Two Twenty looking for an opportunity to work or volunteer here. We talked and determined we could figured something out, with an opportunity for her to see first-hand what life is like as a solo consultant, and for me to put my principles in action as well as to learn more about the field of urban planning. I hope that you found it a wo...
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Mystery Force Field Bars Transit Riders, Report Suggests
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Mystery Force Field Bars Potential Transit Riders, Report Suggests. April 22, 2015. April 22, 2015. This post was written by Brian Hoessler. 8220;People in Saskatoon just will not take the bus is commonly. Heard around town. However, new research suggests something else is at play. Namely, 95% of Saskatoon residents cannot physically board the bus. Instead, there may be a mysterious force-field which bar potential transit riders from entering a bus. There have been several discarded explanations. The...
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