Tolls going up at border crossing in Sarnia

Blue Water Bridge in Sarnia

The Federal Bridge Corporation Limited (FBCL) announced Thursday that they are going ahead with planned toll hike on the Canadian side of the Blue Water Bridge border crossing.

The FBCL says the hike is to compensate for the falling Canadian dollar compared to the U.S. dollar and will take effect April 1^st.

The rate will be raised 50 cents to a rate of $4.00 Canadian.

The FBCL says that raising the rate based on today’s exchange rate would have resulted in a toll of $4.70. Another hike may be possible when rates get reevaluated on October 1^st and April 1^st of each year.

Tolls at the Blue Water crossing will be more closely tied to the exchange rate moving forward, a practice already in place at several other border crossings.

The FBCL says they are facing lower revenues based on the value of the dollar, but also from a drop in traffic heading into the U.S.