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Article #63971Re: Lions Gate Bridge upgrade?
From: emd
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 03:46
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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- In the first place God made idiots; this was for practice; then he made school boards - Mark Twain
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,8c6c90b17c231e18 X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-02-16 19:46:44 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!news.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!utcsri!cs.ubc.ca!mala.bc.ca!oneb!ham!emd Newsgroups: bc.general Subject: Re: Lions Gate Bridge upgrade? Message-ID: <Lck4yB2w164w@ham.almanac.bc.ca> From: emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 19:46:44 PST References: <1loqicINNhap@cs.ubc.ca> Distribution: bc Organization: Robert Smits Lines: 22