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How to solve congestion: Own the roads!17 Apr 2010 Financial Post Under a new U.K. think tank plan, every citizen would own a share of the country’s roads. This would benefit them ... and the economy You paid for the roads. You should own them. That’s the message from the U.K., where a leading think tank, Social Market Foundation, has a solution for a problem that has bedeviled the government for more than a decade: How to introduce road tolls on the country’s heavily congested road system without raising the wrath of a citizenry suspicious of both governments and corporations. Full story » In praise of toll roads10 Apr 2010 The Globe and Mail When the mayor of a car-reliant suburban municipality calls for road tolls, you pay attention. When that mayor is Mississauga’s legendary Hazel McCallion, you sit straight up in your seat. Ms. McCallion told a radio reporter this week that Toronto-region leaders have to at least consider putting tolls on 400-series highways to help build better roads and transit. “Somebody’s got to pay for it,” she said. Well, precisely. Two developments in the past month suggest the money isn’t going to come from government coffers. Full story » Good tolls, bad tolls28 Nov 2008 FP comment The Greater Toronto Area needs a gazillion dollars to fund Metrolinx, a mega mega transportation system of light rail, commuter trains, subways, highways, roads, and bicycle paths designed to reach every ward in an 8,000 square kilometre operating region approaching six million people. It will cost more than governments can afford, say its government backers.
The answer, the backers say, is a toll road system that extends across the GTA and finances the transit megaproject. Sweden proves congestion tolls work4 Aug 2007 National Post Long-suffering car commuters in Stockholm finally got their wish this week: value for money in the use of their roads. Users of rapid transit services got their wish, too: transit that is truly rapid and provides better service. Pedestrians are breathing freer. All are saying "skol" to the resumption of tolling on Stockholm roads. Full story » Sources: For whom the road tolls18 Oct 2006 National Post Traffic congestion costs Toronto an estimated $1.8-billion a year, and a poll of business leaders this month said fixing it should be the new city council's first priority. Lawrence Solomon argues that toll roads are not part of the solution – they are the entire solution. Cities of the Future5 May 2004
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