Pricing Our Roads: What Can Metro Vancouver Learn From Seattle?
Time: 7-9 pm
Place: Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings
Cost: $10 (cash only at door; register online)
Tolling? Road pricing? New technologies?
The Sustainable Transportation Coalition has gone south of the border to get a preview. Seattle has already introduced tolling on the SR 520 bridge and experimented with road-user charges, and we’ve asked Matthew Kitchen, a policy analyst on the Puget Sound Regional Council, to give us an in-depth understanding of their research, experiments, and real-life examples, and to describe what has happened, what they’re learning, and what the implications may be for the future.
Join us to hear about what led to tolling in Seattle, the research they did, and the experiment they created. A panel of Vancouverites will discuss what this might mean for us. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.
