At council today, the ABC majority passed a motion to officially kill any plans to investigate or initiate road pricing. Road pricing is officially dead in Vancouver and so we can claim success in helping promote this issue.

Many thanks to the mayor and ABC councillors who passed this motion. The two Greens, Pete Fry and Adrianne Carr, and One City's Christine Boyle abstained, but thankfully they now find themselves without the power to keep pushing this wasteful and pointless agenda.  Please remember that in four years when they ask for your support again.

$1.5 million was spent on initial planning, a total waste of tax dollars which could have been used to fund so many important civic needs.

Hoping council will now look into killing the wasteful plan to sue big oil, a motion which was brought forward by The Greens Adrianne Carr and passed at council last year.

So thank you, supporters, for helping promote this issue. With over 25,000 supporters, this rates as one of the most successful petitions in Vancouver ever. That's because the notion of road pricing, something the last mayor insisted would never happen, despite him having voted in support of spending that $1.5 million to look into it, was so misguided and ill-considered. Glad we can now put this issue to bed.