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A city committee narrowly approved Wednesday a proposal to make all LRT and bus park-and-ride lots reserve only, develop a differential pricing scheme and establish a system that allows remaining reserve spots to go back into the pool for other users.

Council will debate administration’s report and recommendations at an upcoming meeting. But, if approved, staff will have until June 2017 to flesh out the new park-and-ride reservation system, which may not be implemented until 2018, says the chair of the transportation and transit committee

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“We’re not raising rates, we’re not charging for every stall and even the reservation doesn’t mean that we’ll be charging $85 per stall per person,” said Coun. Shane Keating. “We’re trying to get facilities in place to allow for you to register for a stall at many different parking lots. It might only be $10 a month.”

Currently, half of the park-and-ride stalls can be reserved by transit users for an $85 monthly fee. That system was introduced after council scrapped a disastrous $3 per day levy scheme that was plagued by technical glitches and cursed by many users.