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VANCOUVER (CP)--The B.C. government has collected more than $400 million in tolls on the Coquihalla Highway over the last 14 years, 10 times the amount the province originally said it would collect.
But there are no plans to remove the toll booths at the highway's summit anytime soon.
"There are currently no plans to remove the tolls," Bruce Methven, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transportation and Highways, said last week.
The toll is collected from vehicles travelling the 115 kilometres between Hope and Merritt, the highway's first phase that was opened in time for Expo 86 at a cost of $415 million.
As of the fiscal year ending March 31 this year,...