Thank you, Madam Chair. Tolls will be collected remotely so that vehicles, trucks don’t have to stop at the bridge site to actually pay a toll, and that creates a much more efficient operation. We’re going to use the existing system that we have of collecting payments around permits and those kind of things that are already required for the trucking industry, and then we’re also going to set up some opportunity for trucking companies to pay once a month, do monthly reports. So it should be relatively painless for them.
We actually took the $6 per tonne prorate, and we’re going to convert it into a configuration and we’re going to charge based on truck configuration. So a straight truck, a two or three axel straight truck will be charged $75 northbound, five axel and six axel semi-trailer would be charged $150, and a B-Train or a train vehicle would be charged $275.
So we have talked to the trucking industry about those toll rates and they are well aware of it. We had a series of meetings this fall with them. They are prepared. They like the system that we have in place and are looking forward to the efficiencies that the bridge is going to gain in their operations. Thank you.