As the Province of Alberta looks at how to pay for a bridge over the Peace River on Highway 697, tolls are being considered and debated.
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Matti Siemiatycki, whose teaching and research focus on infrastructure planning, financing and project delivery, comments.
“Tolls were really part of the origin of transposition in the origin of our cities,” said Siemiatycki. “We saw a shift towards public provision of roads in particular, and in large measure for political reasons the tolls came off.”
“The politics of tolls are as interesting as the economics in terms of how they’re implemented,” said Siemiatycki.