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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
Let's use 2 tolled roads. The Coquihalla Highway and the Cobequid Pass. When they were tolled, they were less than $5 a car. The Coquihalla is now free as the cost of the highway was paid off. The Cobequid still has a toll, but it is still around $5.
Now, before you get on some high horse about length, the Coquihalla is 190+ km long. The Cobequid is about 45 km long.
The 407 is about 150 km long and will cost you at least $20 the entire route....
This was a horrible idea. It still is. No government is willing to do anything about it.
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Two small corrections:
1. the toll was actually $10/car IIRC. Motorcycles were $5
2. the highways is certainly not 'free' by any stretch of the imagination. It is no charge to drives but there is a cost involved which now comes from general taxes. BC residents still pay, just in a different form.
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