Toll rebates for transit?
The Surrey Leader has an interesting editorial suggesting that road tolls be banked under individual drivers' names and then offered back to the commuters as discounts on transit passes:If road pricing or regional tolling is to gain any traction, proponents will have to counter the perception that it is nothing more than a tax grab.
How can that be done?
Here's one way. Take the money collected in tolls from each motorist and put it in a personal fund.
It will quickly build up into the hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
The money can then be drawn on to pay transit fares – for a maximum of one year.
In other words, get out of your car and onto a bus or SkyTrain and you can get your money back.
Interesting idea, and exactly the kind of out-of-the-box thinking we need to be doing as we move forward on transit and transportation improvements.
3 Comments:
This seems like a good idea,to me, if the cost of administration isn't too high.
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This makes a lot of sense to me. We're gonna get stuck with tolls bit by bit anyway. It would be a bit more reasonable if you can get the money back to spend on transit.
-RJ
It is intriguing... I wonder what the admin cost would run.
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