A St. Catharines transit bus takes a run through neighbouring Thorold. We need transit buses running through all Niagara's municipalities.
By Doug Draper
If you were out there soaking in some of the last sunny days of summer and missed the news, one of the items that should not escape attention is our regional government’s decision to consider getting into the airport business.
That’s right. Niagara’s regional council passed a recommendation earlier this month, directing the region’s staff to enter negotiations with Niagara-on-the-Lake, the current owner of the Niagara District Airport, to possibly assume the ownership of an airport that, among other things, is troubled with “ongoing operating deficits,” according to the findings of a “Niagara Airports Study” completed for the region this summer.
I red flag this item not to suggest that the idea of the region taking over ownership of an airport is necessarily a bad thing. It maybe the right thing to do for Niagara’s economic future. What’s infuriating though is that our regional council is actually considering getting into the airport business before we have a decent inter-municipal bus system in place. (more…)
