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Originally Posted by aberdeen5698
I've been saying for years now that the sensible thing to do is to start charging tolls immediately with the understanding that the revenues would be set aside to fund a tunnel replacement when it's needed. Then we'd find out what the tolled volume will actually be, instead of optimistic guesses by the MOT. Chances are that we'd discover the bridge isn't needed right away, which means that we could start to build up a fund to pay for the bridge so that at least some of the money is already there when it's needed.
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That or the Alex Fraser bridge would become a parking lot sooner than later and the MOT would know that if they want to toll the new GMB they'd also need to put tolling onto the AFB immediately.
Honestly I don't see any scenario money wise that is remotely good for the region without a new GMB coinciding with tolling being added to the AFB and a new Pattullo. So in essence every crossing over the Fraser is tolled.
And they need to make the toll the same across the board. Then it in essence nullifies things out. We get the money across the board and people will stop diverting to avoid tolls.
Quite frankly I don't care at this point about "tolling everything in Metro Vancouver" I just think they really need to get the Fraser River crossings at this stage.
So when GMB completed (Pattullo should be close to the same time) you have a tolled GMB, AFB, Pattullo, PMB, GEB all with the same toll cost per crossing.
Just my opinion right now.
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