Vancouver mayor suggests tolling major roadways

Business | 206753 hits | Sep 18 8:59 pm | Posted by: Hyack

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson says tolls on major highways and bridges in the Lower Mainland could be the key to TransLink's funding crunch. TransLink, which operates public transit on B.C.'s South Coast, needs an additional $450 million per year to

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by ridenrain
Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:46 am
Hitting the sea to sky highway is starting a class war in Vancouver. I'm not sure that even the bycicle bolshevic wants to start that fight.
by Zipperfish
Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:51 am
It would make more sense to charge people according ot their odometer readings. Same with insurance rates. Right now they charge the same insurance for traveling 50 km a year as they do for 50,000.

If someone wants to charge users, you can hardly call that Bolshevsim. Quite the opposite--that's a measure of privitization of what is currently almost a completely socialized system.

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