02-01-2005, 11:26 AM | #11 | ||
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The benefit for taking your car into downtown London has to outweigh what you pay in terms of time, maintenance to your car, hassle, etc. A toll increases this cost, meaning for more people the cost will outweigh the benefit of driving downtown, and they'll take the train or bus instead.
This can apply to driving anywhere, with different costs and benefits. Personally I think the same should be done in Vancouver, where the bus/train system is good enough to accomodate the increased demand. The toll would go to improving the transit system. This has already happened to a certain degree with a bus pass being included in our student fees at UBC (University of British Columbia). Ridership increased significantly on common student routes, much more than expected. People get used to a new toll in the sense that they stop complaining about it, but if they still keep driving, that just means that the benefit of driving still outweighs the costs including the toll.
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