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Re: Lions Gate Bridge upgrade?

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From: emd
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 03:46
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coatta@cs.ubc.ca (Terry Coatta) writes:

> Steve Leffler writes:
> |> 
> |>    Yeah, right.  If you actually believe that the toll would ever be
> |> removed, I have some swamp land in Florida you might be interested in. :)
> |> Governments just don't give up sources of revenue that easily, and they're
> |> even less likely to if they've spent money putting in a fancy high-tech
> |> toll system.
> 
> The Oak Street Bridge had tolls originally and I believe they were
> removed once the bridge construction costs has been recovered.
> 

Wasn't the Lions Gate bridge financed the same way? And tolls came off 
about twenty years or so ago?


Robert Smits Ladysmith B.C. emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca
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