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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Anyway....mighty neighborly of 'em. Mighty neighborly.
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I'm assuming you are being sarcastic; and if not, other people on the news made similar comments in a sarcastic tone.
The thing is, I would say it was being neighbourly to offer a fee for service instead of charging people for trespassing. They couldn't just open up their roads, or else it becomes a permanent shortcut. And while the people trespassing may not have had the opportunity to ask ahead of time, that doesn't change that they were trespassing.
Given the choice between paying a $20 toll and being stuck in stop and go traffic on 1A for 3 hours, I would have gladly paid the $20. I have had that happen before; being stuck on 1A. About 10 years ago on the August long weekend there was a grass fire along the TCH. Took over 5 hours to get home from Banff.