I saw the article in the paper this weekend and was absolutely stunned when the consultants suggested a toll. Didn’t they just spend a $100 + million to redo the Lion’s Gate Bridge? Where is the toll for that? As I wrote in the comments at the “other Langley site”:

Over the last 50 years a transportation infrastructure has been built to allow for the moving of automobiles and trucks throughout the lower mainland. By far the majority of the work (and cost) has been to provide the high caliber road/bridge/transit infrastructure in the core municipalities. This infrastructure was primarily paid for by our senior governments either through gas taxes or as debt upon which we are paying interest. Why is it, therefore, that while my taxes are going to pay the debt on the infrastructure in the core municipalities I (and other Langleyites) are now expected to shoulder the costs of infrastructure in the suburbs through tolls?
Blair | 01.31.06 - 8:43 am | #

It's time the feds stepped in with the bucks that we have already given them. We have PC members in the area, and we should get on their case relentlessly. I intend to do so personally, but we all need to get on their case.
methinks | 01.31.06 - 11:54 am | #

Do not believe the light rail announcements. The Alex Fraser Bridge was promoted as a solution to congestion and as a future light rail corridor.

Neither has happened.

This is what's known as a greenwash.

Twinning the Bridge will be the final nail in the coffin of livability of the Valley. Fight for transit improvements only.
pierre rovtar | 02.02.06 - 11:10 am | #