Cars pay for roads

It’s my understanding that gas taxes collect about $23 billion a year and that B.C.’s share is roughly $3 billion.

If money were used properly to build and maintain roads — not bike lanes and huge subsidies to transit and anything else governments do to buy votes — there would be no need to have tolls or huge traffic jams anywhere.

Remember that gas taxes are a tax paid by vehicle owners and we aren’t getting our value for taxes paid. We aren’t London or New York. We live in large areas with relatively small populations here in B.C. Cars are a necessity. — Dennis Bourne, Victoria