The Green party is proposing tolls on bridges into Montreal to beef up the province's transport coffers.
Green Leader Scott MacKay said a $2 toll would translate into an extra $500 million a year, money that could be used to build tramways in Montreal and to invest in the city's public transit system.
Any remaining money would be returned to Montreal taxpayers, MacKay said on Sunday during a campaign event in his home riding of Bourget, in Montreal's east end.
A tramway system is one of the Green party's key public transit policy proposals in the 2007 Quebec election.
The party wants to contract Bombardier to build a 200 kilometre network through the island, which it said would reduce traffic congestion, ease the burden on roads and highways and improve air quality.
Bombardier built a similar tramway system in Strasbourg, France.
The Green party also proposes creating a "green belt" around Montreal, where the province would protect green space and create riverside parkland for recreation and tourism activities.
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| Party | Elected | Leading | Total | Vote Share |
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| LIB | 48 | 0 | 48 | 33.08% |
| ADQ | 41 | 0 | 41 | 30.80% |
| PQ | 36 | 0 | 36 | 28.32% |
| QS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.65% |
| GRN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.89% |
| OTH | 0 | 0 | 0 | .26% |
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