CONFEDERATION Toll rates for long bridge

CONFEDERATION

Toll rates for long bridge

Automobiles will pay C$35 ($25) to use the new Confederation Bridge which replaces ferry service between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island this summer. Tolls are charged leaving the island only. Single body trucks pay C$40 ($28), tractor-trailers C$50 ($35) and buses C$200 ($140). There is no toll for bicyclists or pedestrians. But there aren’t likely to be many pedestrians as the bridge is 12.9km (8 ml) in length!

Once billed as the longest marine bridge in the world (an honor that we think should go to Denmark’s Storebaelt bridge of 18km (11 ml) the Confederation is now cited by the operator Strait Crossing as “the longest bridge over ice covered water.” (Maybe the world’s longest vehicular sea crossing is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel of 28km, 3 bridge sections and 2 tunnels, at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, Virginia.)

The Confederation bridge will have attendants take tolls but it will also have unattended creditcard swipe lanes. (Contact Krista Jenkins 902 628 8633 www.peinet.pe.ca)