Vancouver Toll Bridge
An interesting note: RVing through Canada we crossed a large bridge in Vancouver marked as toll but zipped across without seeing a toll booth. Talking with others at a campground I found out that Cana...
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We don't have toll booths around here and two that do now have electronic tolling. If you are from the US and try to avoid payment when it arrives in the mail, not to worry, the gov't uses a US-based contractor to collect the payments. :)
If that's the new Port Mann bridge on the #1 hwy, there's been a lot of opposition to the toll, esp. from truckers. The truckers and others take a long detour around that bridge which has only made other routes clogged up. One of those detours, the Patullo Bridge, is now slated for replacement with a new toll bridge.
There is a new replacement/upgrade in the works for the George Massey tunnel on hwy 99 on the way from the border into Vancouver and it will also be tolled. DW takes that route to work every day and fortunately will be retired by the time it's finished.
In the not too distant future, you won't be able to get into Vancouver from the east or south without running into a toll bridge, unless coming from the east you could cross over Fraser River in Mission and travel along the north side of the river but that'd be a LOT slower. But taking an RV into Vancouver isn't the best of ideas unless going to Whistler or Vancouver Island.
If that's the new Port Mann bridge on the #1 hwy, there's been a lot of opposition to the toll, esp. from truckers. The truckers and others take a long detour around that bridge which has only made other routes clogged up. One of those detours, the Patullo Bridge, is now slated for replacement with a new toll bridge.
There is a new replacement/upgrade in the works for the George Massey tunnel on hwy 99 on the way from the border into Vancouver and it will also be tolled. DW takes that route to work every day and fortunately will be retired by the time it's finished.
In the not too distant future, you won't be able to get into Vancouver from the east or south without running into a toll bridge, unless coming from the east you could cross over Fraser River in Mission and travel along the north side of the river but that'd be a LOT slower. But taking an RV into Vancouver isn't the best of ideas unless going to Whistler or Vancouver Island.
