Major reduction in the costs for the bridge and the traveler going to the islands of the-Madeleine

The toll duties to cross the Confederation bridge and the costs of the traveler leading to the islands-the-Madeleine by car will be radically reduced, an “important” decision which delights the Madelinots.

“The whole community of the islands is happy with this decision,” says the deputy mayor Hugues Lafrance.

From Friday, it will be necessary to pay $ 20 rather than $ 50.25 to drive on the bridge of the Confederation, which links the New Brunswick to the Prince Edward Island.

Even more notable, the price to take the traveler Madeleine IIwhich shuttles between mice, at the Prince Edward Island, and the Quai de Cap-aux-Meules, in the Islands-de-la-Madeleine, is completely reduced by half. It will go from $ 110.50 to $ 55.

It changes the situation

“It’s been a long time since elected officials from the maritime community and the transport committee recommended a pricing adapted to the needs of Madelinots,” says Lafrance.

As the airplane transport offer is rather limited and seasonal, the recourse on the ferry is common, even banal, but expensive.

“The people of the islands, they have to use the boat regularly, for work, but also for travel for health care, in Quebec among others,” he continues.

“It’s really major, because it is the portfolio of our citizens who was impacted in a fairly serious way when we wanted to take the boat,” said the deputy mayor.

This announcement made Monday by Ottawa will even increase tourism, a happy problem for this deputy mayor of the popular destination of Quebecers. “It will be up to us to manage this!”

For the inhabitants

For Ottawa, it is a question of reducing costs for the inhabitants of the Atlantic provinces, for companies and for tourists.

“We will have to make more affordable traveling through this country, for people and for businesses,” Prime Minister Mark Carney told Albany, Prince Edward Island, with the famous 12.9 km bridge as a background.

Price reduction will also apply to two other interpromincial travelers operated by private companies, but of which Ottawa remains the owner.

The total cost of measures announced on Monday, promised during the electoral campaign, amounts to around $ 100 million per year.