Farnworth says no to road pricing<\/p>\n
Published 2:00 pm Thursday, March 19, 2026<\/p>\n
British Columbia\u2019s Transportation and Transit Minister Mike Farnworth told a Surrey business crowd on March 18 that there will be no road pricing on his watch.<\/p>\n
Road pricing involves charging motorists for using roads through tolls, or fees based on distance or time travelled, or imposing a congestion levy.<\/p>\n
Mike Farnworth was the guest speaker, focusing on transportation and networks and infrastructure for Surrey, White Rock and the surrounding region during a luncheon at the Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel hosted by the Surrey & White Rock Board of Trade.<\/p>\n
The board\u2019s CEO, Joslyn Young, asked him how the provincial government will pay for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) up and down King George Boulevard.<\/p>\n
Farnworth replied it\u2019s a top priority for the provincial government and TransLink, with the government having signed a $329 million agreement to deal with the operating deficit over the next three years.<\/p>\n
The government, he said, has committed to a new funding \u201cmechanism\u201d to be in place in 2027 that will not include road-pricing.<\/p>\n
He said he couldn\u2019t elaborate on the tool. \u201cThe ministry is working on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI can tell you one thing,\u201d Farnworth vowed, \u201cit will not be road-pricing. I often get asked oh, are you going to do road-pricing? And the answer is no, we are not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farnworth says no to road pricing Published 2:00 pm Thursday, March 19, 2026 British Columbia\u2019s Transportation and Transit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-547701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}