Queen’s Park nixes TO’s highway toll wish
TORONTO — Toronto Mayor David Miller may want highway drivers and truckers to dig the city out of its financial mess, but the province has other ideas.
Ontario Transportation Minister Jim Bradley recently dismissed a proposal from a city-appointed blue-ribbon panel that the province implement road tolls on 400 series highways around the GTA.
The panel suggests that tolls from road users could raise $700 million to pay for Toronto services like expanding the transit system.
While Mayor Miller loves the idea, Bradley reiterated that it has no plans whatsoever to toll sections of the existing 400-series highways.
Road users already pay high federal and provincial fuel tax rates, and very little of that revenue gets put back into road funding.
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