Posted Feb 11, 2017, 4:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
I don't get the problem: just like transit riders pay for the cost of operating their buses and trains, a flat fare allows drivers to pay for the cost of maintaining their infrastructure (like they already did decades ago), AND without causing gridlock at one particular toll-free bridge or tunnel.
Said riders, by the way, pay $2-3 per trip - I don't think $1 two or three times a day will send anybody to the poorhouse. Heck, if you use the Port Mann now, you're saving money!
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The problem is that the region-wide tolling option would go to a referendum vote. We all know the result of that one... "Hell NO!!!"
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