Montreal Tolls
The report proposes four types of tolls with projected income:
- A toll ranging from $0.60 to $2.40 per trip across Montreal’s 15 bridges ($445 million per year).
- A Montreal highway toll.
- A general toll on highways in Quebec’s larger urban centres.
- A toll on the most congested roads and highways across the province ($1.6 billion per year).
Montréal, like most North American cities, needs to discourage driving, particularly people doing daily commutes by car. It’s important to put the resulting profits from the tolls into something which offsets the deleterious effects of so many cars, like public transport.
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March 4th, 2008