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Old Posted Jun 13, 2008, 2:16 AM
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Originally Posted by northwest2k View Post
Yes they would. A high toll price would be perfect for the bridge. It would discourage people from living on the island and commuting to work in vancouver each morning. While still providing a fast, reliable mode of transportation for freight and recreational travel.
How would that at all help to pay for the bridge if you're discouraging people from commuting? Anyway it'd probably be way more efficient and cheaper to move freight by ship...its slower, but one ship can carry what hundreds of trucks can do in a single trip. Theres no logic in transporting by truck across the straight.

Anyway a bridge across is probably not economically feasible, perhaps even technologically feasible due to the extreme depths. The money would be much better spent improving infrastructure in Metro Vancouver and augmenting ferry services.
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