In today's Globe and Mail, John Barber wrote a column titled "Reality requires road tolls; prepare for the inevitable".
What caught my eye?
What makes tolls doubly attractive is that motorists also stand to benefit, both immediately and in the long term. Our highways today are like Communist supermarkets, with huge lineups for artificially cheap food that is rarely available.
By now, everybody knows there is only one way to rationalize the distribution of a scarce resource: You price it. The lineups disappear and rutabagas suddenly abound.
That, friends, is some evocative imagery, especially considering who it comes from.
Now if only the City of Toronto would follow Barber's advice, vis-a-vis on-street parking.
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