Dear Editor,
The provincial government officials pushing for the $3.5-billion bridge to replace the Massey Tunnel are in lala land.
They assume we hard working citizens will just pay the tolls that will be rammed down our throats.
It gets friggin’ ridiculous when you start calculating how much $3.5 billion is.
Let’s say the bridge is to be paid from tolls over 20 years.
It would cost $497,000 for every day, not including stat holidays and not even including the interest on the $3.5 billion to pay off that kind of money.
Now, if the bridge plan is supposed to be better for port business, is the bridge that cost effective when it is costing the taxpayers almost half a million dollars a day?
Also, if the bridge is so that the ships can pass through, why not make it toll-free for cars and have the ships pay the toll for passing under it?
The toll can be set at around $150,000 each way to pay for the ridiculous Massey bridge plan.
When the numbers are crunched and we find out the real cost of the bridge, every taxpayer should be upset!
Steve K Kawamura
Richmond
