Ugh so far <| sep |> we doing gieaway ! <| sep |> This was just a bad time to post this . I mean , look at the frontpage , there is literally a video about how bad the hacking has gotten . <| sep |> It also costs a fortune to live in the GTA . That ' s a different issue regarding zoning . And if transport was a bit more expensive , maybe other cities than Toronto would have downtowns and jobs rather than concentrating it all in one spot . What ? I see your point but the highways are being used for what they ' re intended for . Give the suburbs access to cities . If the highways are congested build another highway , just don ' t toll it and you get better traffic distribution . No , they are not . Highways were built to assist freight transport and to allow fast intercity movements . Suburban commuters using them to get cheap houses while getting the rest of society to foot most of the bill of the infrastructure they use was not the plan . Commuters aren ' t supposed to be jamming highways like they ' re doing now . Building new highways is absolute lunacy , it doesn ' t even work , you just end up spending billions and billions more to try to satisfy a nearendless appetite for free roads . People start whining the government is taxing the hell out of them , but not realizing the reason the taxes are so high is that their abuse of public infrastructure is what is causing taxes to go up . User fees are easier to avoid than taxes , you just have not to use whatever has a fee and you ' re golden . Taxes tend to find a way to get to you no matter what you try to do . The whole point of public infrastructure is it gets used . The only reason this is an issue is because of a series of terrible decisions . Toronto saw the traffic coming as far back as the 1940 s but every time infrastructure enhancements were planned they were immediately canceled . Now you have overcrowded highways because there aren ' t enough . As for opting out , you are being rewarded . You don ' t pay for fuel , maintenance , registration , emissions testing , parking , and insurance . Also keep in mind your cost of living goes up because anything you buy coming up a highway is going to be tolled . The cost of tolls on freight trucks would be negligible . A regular truck can carry 22 tons of stuff . Even if they were to drive halfway across Canada 2 500 km and the toll for trucks was 20 cents per km , that would come to only 500 $ per truck per delivery , or about 2 cents per kilogram of cargo . Of course some cargo is bulky and light , but the toll would be absolutely insignificant for the consumer . Not only that , but it would be absolutely fair to do it that way .