Score One for 5ers! Bridge Toll Reduced!

Who says you can't fight city hall? In this case, the yelping noises of fifth wheel owners about toll rate inequities on the International Bridge at Sault Ste-Marie,Ontario. After hiking the fee for fivers to $9.05 last April, bridge officials received 50 complaints from RV owners who took exception to the high fees: Other RV trailer owners were paying only $4.50 to cross the bridge.

According to a story in the Sault Star newspaper of Ontario, the whole problem was cracked up to "an oversight." Just how much extra cash was generated by the 'double taxation' issue is unknown--or at least, nobody's saying. But one thing that is clear, the money won't be refunded. In 1999, over 2.6 million passenger vehicles crossed the 3-arch, 2.8 mile long bridge that connects towns of the same name in both Ontario and Michigan.

Photo: Transport Canada