The Industry's Newest Buzzword

The issue of each of us paying more in taxes and levies to fund transit, as Metrolinx recommends (its CEO Bruce McCuaig above), continues to stir up a nice debate. According to Metropolitan Commercial Realty sales rep Amir Nourbakhsh: I think the challenge is not so much that people dont want better transit, but rather that we would prefer that others pay for it. Forget NIMBY-ism, the new buzzword should be NFMBA-ism [Not From My Bank Account].

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