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endeavors also discussed. Ultimately, it will be left to Waterloo City Council to decide. o â€" already stretched relationship between Waterloo and While Taylor maintained that the relationship has been a good one, he added that "they own the system and they have the final say" on any changes that may effect both cities. According to Taylor, ad revenues is one such issue. Waterioo does not receive any portion of the advertising revenues genâ€" erated from the displays on the city buses. This has been a conâ€" tentious issue for many Counsellors who feel Waterloo should share in the ad revenues. The consultants study will delineate four options, ranging from leaving the transit system the way it is, to setting up a Kitchener Councils? Optimistically, Taylor offered that, "there shouldn‘t be any fallâ€"out if we both discuss it with an open for our public transit is $1.2 million, but he adds, "the projecâ€" tion could be a lot less." To keep costs down for the taxpayers, Waterloo "must look for areas to maximize efficiencies. That‘s what the study is all about." Taylor said that questions about the efficiency of our transit system came from the public several years ago. He said that the public queried the running of "40â€"foot buses in neighborhoods in midâ€"afternoons with nobody on them." Taylor said that this started the City looking at the four routes that run in Waterloo and our share of the crossâ€"border transit that travels between Kitchener and Waterloo. As anyone who has ever looked at our buses knows, Waterloo‘s city transit is provided by Kitchener Transit. What the average citizen probably doesn‘t know is that Waterloo is ‘not a partner but basically a customer of Kitchener Transit." It‘s about your eight cents. Eight cents is the amount out of every dollar in property taxes paid by the taxpayers of Waterloo that is destined to be spent on public transit. However, that measly two cents trans lates into a whopping $1.8 million after revenues and provinâ€" cial subsidies are subtracted. No wonder that public transit is certain to become a hot issue as the City of Waterloo struggles to find ways to cut costs in the wake of provincial cutbacks. Throw in the fact that the relationship between Kitchener and Waterloo has of late been a little testy, and you have all the ingredients for a ripe controversy during these lazy summer months. We‘ll see Does Taylor think the transit issue might further strain the Your eight cents Fax No. Waterloo Town Square 75 King St. South, Suite 201 Waterloo, Ontario N2J 1P2 FENCE courtesy, to both Mayor Christy and Kitchener Chief Administrative Officer Tom MacKay. Why the study? For answers, 1 spoke to the Counsellor on Transit Issues, Morty Taylor. Taylor said that, "transit is a big ficket â€" item _ for _ taxpayers." Presently, the provincial subsidy fact that the City of Waterloo recentâ€" ly brought in two outside consulâ€" tants to look at our transit system to determine if any efficiencies could be found. The study, which has already been presented inâ€"camera to Waterloo C.ty Council and, as a Tim Gardner bepeie oi ind niciagy rematnabancacent mt pre So? Most us seniors are pretty sharp, too. We can rememâ€" ber our postal codes, our social security numbers and our carâ€" The recommended council â€" an elected chairperson, 11 councillors and seven mayors â€" seems large enough to rule a country but political considerations probably demand such a size. Better still are its recommendations that the region take over garbage, sewage and water. Merged at the regional level would be transit services. And there are other equally good recommendations. They‘re a fair start but, for example, fire services should be a region responsibility. I‘d let the local municipalities run the libraries and parks and rec but not much else. I‘d love that if only to hear those Cambridge councillors sob that they‘re closer to their voters than knit underwear and have their hands on more pulses than a congress of MDs. The settingâ€"up of regional government was but the first step. Now we have to streamline it and save millions. Taxes are inevitable, but it‘s the shipping and handling that kill us. Memory Course: Dave Farrow of Kitchener has won a place in the Guinness Book of Records by reciting from memâ€" ory, 2,704 randomly shuffled playing cards â€" the equivalent of 52 decks. There‘ll be a lot of parishâ€"pump politicking and heelâ€"dragging before our municipal govâ€" ernments are shuffled to make good sense. As a matter of fact, shrinking of regional council to 19 members from 26 seems a modest start. Shrinking Pains: Only the first words have been said or written on the restructuring of regional government. It‘s only the beginning folks, only the beginning. Say, wasn‘t that the greatest of Canada Days? A decade ago, _ plate numbers. The problem is we sometimes forget which who‘d have thought we stoic Canadians would ever show that _ which. much emotion about a country, but it‘s now a fact. Fade to Black: CKCO has cancelled Mclean an It‘d be hard not to love a country as great as ours. Sadly, Company,apolpo‘riolmmichl,wrfim.m&smdsou there are still some among us willing to make any sacrifice for _ It was to me, the last locally produced show of substance. Canada as long as it doesn‘t involve any effort, money or emotion. I o Bingo Halls soon to be the only Public place for smoking cigarettes. Streamlining region a necessity Andrew Pearen Rick Campbell The Waterloo Chronicle is 240 Holiday Inn Dr., Unit F $45 yearly in Canada. E Cambridge, On. $90 yearly outside Canada. N3C 3X4 +GSTL The views of our columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of the newspaper. . ols Waterloo Chronicle is published every Wednesday by The | 240 I : Cam! N3C Oncr over ave m t en The youn rollerâ€"hockey and get thirsty. Natch, wmmmfiuummu"s.mm about the fountain. . Waterloo officials shudder at any implication they‘re trying to hustle soft drinks. The lack of a water fountain was an oversight, they say and one will be installed this month in the area of the softâ€"drink machines. So that‘s another problem solved. What‘s that? Who wa$ responsible for the oversight? Who knows? Anyhow, if all of us really profited from our mistakes, we‘d all be rich by no# Well, replacing McLean will be Regis and Kathic Lee. Unless Regis is from Rummelhardt and Kathic Lee is from Linwood, they‘re hardly local content. ? The winner in all this? Not the KW community, certainly. Liquid Asset: Waterloo‘s Moses Springer Arena has under= gomaremvafiondntcosnoudlyilufllion.lldoulfij refurnishing, it had a water fountain; now it has no fountaif, but it has two soft drink machines. . 3 The Fairway Group 240 Holiday Inn Dr., Unit F natch, with numbers, highâ€"flown rhetori¢ Mdnmwrdiiahmunicaiandj sundry blahâ€"blah. The response seemed to say np(ldwonyabmnlodcbnum,lhz(um makes you wonder Some months ago, | i CKCO management by reprinting a stafler‘s latâ€" ter lamenting the decline in locally produced oned as newsâ€"related shows. And of course, doesn‘t count the Sunday morning services St. Andrew‘s Presbyterian and St. Pete That‘s not counting Provincewide and McLaren‘s Sunday AM which I‘ve always In any case, the cancellation of Bob M _ <A/ to *neck in neck" knew that it was prophecy as the (the only other able to draw 1 into his camp at ed as Premier. to ride several trol of pension time) on a~ on the Ontario and 1 can no | Frances, 1 feel fill the need as 1 remain Let me be ve that 1 worked will i in men 1 faced some leader. While 1 Ths onAE 5 ige