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ICBC blocks record number of motorists for unpaid bridge tolls No driver’s licence renewals or vehicle insurance for 42,000 users of Port Mann and Golden Ears crossings until money owed is received; transit fare evaders and deadbeat parents also targeted
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By Jeff Nagel after her husband was blocked from Thousands of B.C. drivers are being renewing insurance until he paid frozen out of driver’s licence or car in- $8,000 in bridge tolls, some of which he surance renewals because they refused believed were charged in error. They rarely cross the bridge now beor neglected to pay bridge tolls. cause neither work in Langley anymore. ICBC acts as the enforcement mechaThe couple is also selling their Maple nism and it currently has refuse-to-isRidge house, after which they’ll pay off sue notices on file against 25,000 drivthe outstanding tolls. ers for failing to pay their Port Mann Murdoch said she’s surprised by how Bridge tolls and 17,000 for unpaid tolls many other people are in the same on the Golden Ears Bridge. plight. By comparison, ICBC is also blocking “I bet there are a lot of people out 9,300 parents for there driving around failing to make child without driver’s licencsupport payments and “I bet there are a lot of es.” 4,100 TransLink fare She also argues tolls people out there driving evaders who haven’t unfairly hit people who paid their tickets. live near the two toll around without driver’s The 25,000 drivers bridges and work on the barred by ICBC for licences.” other side of the Fraser Port Mann tolls is an River. Stacey Murdoch all-time high and has “I’m not saying bridges been as low as 10,000 shouldn’t be tolled. But at other times, accordwhy are people in Maple Ridge and Pitt ing to the Transportation Investment Meadows specifically being straddled Corporation (TI Corp.) that manages with this bill?” she asked. “Everybody the bridge. in the Lower Mainland should be tolled Maple Ridge motorcyclist Stacon every single bridge.” ey (Stella) Murdoch argues it’s too TI Corp. spokesman Greg Johnson inheavy-handed for ICBC to deny people sists the system to enforce toll payment the ability to drive without any option is fair. to gradually repay the debt over time. He said the “vast majority” of Port “When you do that to somebody Mann bridge users pay their tolls on you limit what they can do,” she said. time, many of them by automatic “People get into these situations but we pre-authorized payment through their have to give them a way to get out.” TReO bridge tolling account. Murdoch started the Facebook page “Golden Ears Bridge Toll Nightmares” See MOST BRIDGE USERS / Page 3
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