This 1959 Delta Archives photo shows a toll ticket for the new Deas Island tunnel.
Tolls were removed in 1964 and have not been in place for the tunnel ever since.
However, that could change if Metro Vancouver introduces a form of mobility pricing in the next few years.
The Mobility Pricing Independent Commission has already submitted its final report on potential mobility pricing schemes for the region.
One possibility is charging drivers for going through so-called congestion “hot spots” and the tunnel just happens to have been listed as the highest congestion point, and thus a higher toll could be imposed.
Road pricing could cost the average household $5-to-$8 per day, or between $1,800-to-$2,700 per year, based on preliminary analysis.
The charge may be just enough to prompt behavior changes in some vehicle users with access to alternative modes of transportation, the report notes.
Metro is still early in the process on potential road pricing.
