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LETTERS: ‘User pay’ takes its toll on drivers

Editor: There has been so much talk about tolls and road pricing in Metro Vancouver.
Canada, BC, Vancouver. Aerial photos of Port Mann Bridge after sunset.
Tolled – and soon-to-be-tolled – Fraser River crossings are some examples of ‘user pay’ backed by politicians.

Editor:

There has been so much talk about tolls and road pricing in Metro Vancouver.

The residents of B.C. spend billions of dollars every year building and maintaining thousands of kilometres of highway and hundreds of bridges running through some very isolated areas of this province.

Why is it that those of us living in the tiny southwest corner of the province have to pay for our area’s improvements on top of this?

Metro Vancouver’s area is only 0.03 per cent of this province, yet our politicians love to use the excuse ‘user pay’.

Why doesn’t this apply to the rest of the province or those that are able to use our heavily subsidized transit system?

It is time to dismantle this failed behemoth called TransLink and have the provincial government take back its responsibility for all modes of transportation.

Chris Hale, Surrey