Road tolls to cut down on congestion? help

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Road tolls to cut down on congestion?
New article says it's worked in other countries
Amanda Wawryk/Macleans Jan 06, 2011 06:42:40 AM
Be the first to Comment  0 Recommendation(s) VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Our commute is getting longer and costing us more than ever.

In Vancouver, the average commute is 67 minutes per day; every year, we spend over a month in our cars. A new Macleans article is finding out if tolls or "road pricing" would help cut congestion.

Andrew Coyne with the magazine says it's worked in other countries. "The kind of ring-toll that they did in London, where they put about 10 pounds to get into the city centre, it's had the enormous impact in terms of deterring people from making needless trips into city centre.

Coyne adds if we tolled roads, demand would go down. He says many people avoid public transit and car pooling because we still love the comforts of our own car.

The article says on average, driving just one kilometre on a Vancouver road costs 45 cents. Toll roads have cut congestion by up to 30 per cent in some countries.