Editor: Re: “A toll on seniors,” (The Times, June 3).
Many seniors in the Langley area are in the same boat as the author of that letter.
Paying our toll bill each month takes all the fun out of visiting friends and kids on the other side of the bridge.
The part that really hurts is I have to pay TransLink $214.49 on my property tax, and more taxes again on every gallon of gas I buy. If the ‘yes’ side wins in the transportation plebiscite, that’s more tax. Where will it all end?
What I want is a Langley resident seniors’ toll pass so I could visit a friend in the Royal Columbian Hospital or attend my grandson’s graduation.
Having Sunday dinner with my son would be much more enjoyable if it didn’t cost me money I don’t have to get there.
The Port Mann Bridge toll is forcing people in the Fraser Valley to change their lifestyle and that is wrong.
Langley has become a cash cow for Metro Vancouver. I think it’s time to go.
John Winter,
Langley
