B.C. has left the option of a vehicle levy to fund TransLink on the table, despite contradictory comments last week that it may be disallowed.

Premier David Eby confirmed the vehicle levy is one of a suite of ideas the government will discuss.

“These are not easy conversations,” he said in an interview with BIV. “We’re trying to leave as much on the table as we go.”

He said Transportation Minister Mike Farnworth is “trying to be as open-minded as possible” about TransLink funding, including the levy.

Eby’s government promised TransLink a new funding source by 2027, as part of a $312 million bailout it announced last month to prevent major cuts to bus, Skytrain and Seabus services.

Eby at first seemed to rule both mobility pricing and a vehicle levy as funding possibilities during an exchange in question period last week, but in an interview confirmed his refusal only........

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