Posted Dec 17, 2015, 7:43 AM
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Of course, as always, the devil lies in the details and for most people the biggest detail is how much will it cost in terms of tolls?
Even if the tolls are less than $3 {which I very much doubt} the Metro area has to have a real conversation about how roads are tolled in the entire area. As far as I'm concerned it is much fairer to toll all the bridges over the Fraser/Burrard Inlet and HWY#1 from Vancouver to Surrey in order to spread the pain around. The Barnet HWY should also be tolled.
It is grotesquely unfair that someone can drive on the newly widened Lougheed from Mission thru the new Pitt Meadows Bridge down the Mary Hill along the widened HWY#1
along the improved Upper Levels all the way to Whistler on the improved/widened Sea To Sky without paying a cent but some poor slob who lives in Ladner and works in Steveston has to pay a $4 {or whatever it is} toll.
It would be far fairer to toll all bridges by just one dollar.
Vancouverites don't have a problem with tolls for the Valley but do for their area because "it's different". If the area is to grow as a region it has to act like one.
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