No one is going to pay $1.50 per mile, for a daily trip situation. Just suggesting a 5-mile ‘path’ to get into DC, and this toll...would be ridiculous.
I always thought for this path up to DC, it would be smart to mount a hanging suspension rail-line along the interstate, with five or six giant parking lots along the way. Then run a high-speed railway system from forty to sixty miles out, up to DC’s Metro system. This would lessen traffic flow.
“I always thought for this path up to DC, it would be smart to mount a hanging suspension rail-line along the interstate, with five or six giant parking lots along the way. Then run a high-speed railway system from forty to sixty miles out, up to DC’s Metro system. This would lessen traffic flow.”
Already exists, on the Maryland side: https://s3.amazonaws.com/mta-website-staging/mta-website-staging/files/System%20Maps/MARC_System_Map_02_2019.pdf
Virginia also has its own system: https://www.vre.org/service/map/
They probably look at the bridge tolls into Manhattan and figure they can get away with the equivalent.
Yes, lobbyists, govt contractors that can pass along the costs, govt agency workers who are able to deem the trip time essential for business, etc will pay. We the taxpayers get shafted by those costs today and we will be shafted picking up the cost of the loans in the future. Meanwhile Washington swamp laughs at us.