Good god what an awful pick <| sep |> They are footing the bill . Unless they ' re communuting from Quebec their taxes are paying for the highway . Ah , well then , why object to tolling the roads then ? If as you say commuters are already paying their fair share , whether they do it through taxes or tolls , makes no difference right ? Taxes won ' t go down if we toll the highway , so the government can start double dipping . So the commuters have to pay taxes to build the highway , then pay to drive on it ? That ' s not fair at all . The non commuters get the benefits of having a highway but don ' t have to pay to use it . Well , no , the tolls would REPLACE the taxes . Noncommuters who do not use the highways do not benefit from them and thus shouldn ' t have to pay for them . If the goods they consume have been carried on the freeways , then they do benefit indirectly , and GOOD NEWS ! with tolls , the cost of the freeways would be included in the delivery cost of these goods and so these consumers would also pay their fair share of their indirect use of the freeways . Tolls don ' t replace taxes , they supplement them . Non commuters do benefit from highways . Buses take highways , non drivers take buses . Oh , and biasing the costs of highways onto drivers too much could surpress highway use enough to negatively impact the economyHighways have only negative externalities for the communities they go through , that ' s why freeways usually kill the urban neighborhoods they go through . Would you like to live next to one , with constant noise and pollution ? No . I wouldn ' t . But that ' s why Toronto doesn ' t have highways like it should .