Saskatchewan is again disappointed in hearing the federal government wants to close Regina airport. We have one day a week passenger train service, and Greyhound is gone. We have passenger and freight private carriers sometimes, but with no network or schedule and that causes lots of inconvenience.
The Saskatchewan Party has the foolish ideology that the private sector will solve our problems. In our society some big projects such as hospitals, highways, transportation, etc. are too big for the private sector to handle and need money from public (taxpayer money) or have to be subsidized. Cities in Saskatchewan subsidize their transportation needs with taxpayer money.
Our seniors and small communities need better service and treatment than is offered today. STC made profits in handling freight, but had poor income from passenger side. STC was destroyed by the Wall government.
SGI is now offering rebates back to customers which add up to approximately $285 million. Please use this rebate money to start up STC system again, complete with network and schedule and some efficiency to make STC type transportation back to full profit.
Put my SGI rebate money into new bus service!
-- Eric Sagan
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