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Originally Posted by logicbomb
Something needs to be done to deal with the congestion. It took a few years but Highway #1 is a total parking lot during rushhour- and this will probably worsen with a growing population.
It's not fair that someone from Maple Ridge can take a new bridge and an upgraded road for free while someone coming in from Fraser Heights has to spend near $6.50 a day just to deal with congestion from Cape Horne to Vancouver via the always clogged Burnaby Lake stretch.
I like the idea of general road tolling for the busy highways and crossings. Highway #91, Highway #99, Highway #1, Lougheed etc.
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You fix congestion by building infrastructure. People can decide their method of travel between point a and b at x time. Vancouver is so far behind and it is why I am leaving the city as it is progressively getting more and more unlivable. The solution is to build build build, and I mean massive investments. In the mean time the country should curtail immigration rates to take some pressure of the major cities if it cant direct people to other parts of the country. That is the solution.
Mobility pricing is at worst a major infringement on privacy rights, at best inefficient. Also I should add it is not in place anywhere in the world, not in 20-30 million people cities. Not in mature 5 10 million people cities. Now you want to put it in place in Vancouver? A under built sprawling city in the second largest country on this planet? For 2.4 million residents? To accomplish what? Piss on privacy rights, flush billions down the toilet and make our region even less livable?
Mobility pricing is not viable nor smart. The government should be doing only one thing. One thing. Providing infrastructure. Not trying to determine how individuals move around in their daily lives as they do their part in running our economy. The government should pay for this by taxing economic activity, as in income, corporate, sales taxes etc.
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