My daughter had to learn how to avoid the tolls
In the original plan, none of the Federally funded interstates were supposed to be toll roads. Subsequent administrations allowed that to change. The original designers were right.
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Fluctuations and increases like this are fine. As long as payment is made in Bitcoin.
Interesting: a progressive use tax.
Why? It didn't take you any time at all to get it to $34.50.
I used to live in the area and commute into DC.
I am just LOLing at some of the comments from the ticked off middle level bureacrats on the WTOP site - they are demanding pay increases to cover these tolls. LOL.
Price gouging practiced by the government. If allowed, this dynamic tolling could expand to all kinds of dynamic taxing.
Supply and demand. You want congestion-free lanes, you have to pay what it’s worth - and other drivers are willing to pay $34 for it.
First day will, of course, fluctuate wildly while some try it for sheer novelty, and others discover the hard way that maybe it isn’t worth that much after all (after driving up the price by actually being willing to pay that much).
I’m all for paid toll lanes. Gives people a what-it’s-worth congestion-free option, and gives everyone else a free you-and-everyone-else option.
Its all about control...people need to wake up...flood the road with cars and just gum it up...the state police hate the duty to monitor the I-66 HOV rule breakers....ha!...especially in bad weather.
I retireD 6 months ago after having to deal with this HOV nonsense for 12 years....NOVA can GFI....LOL
It really bugs me to see these express lanes that drivers have to pay extra to drive on. Everyone’s taxes paid for them and all lanes should be available to all taxpayers.
There are those here who support toll roads. I am against them.
Imagine the huge bills these people are getting plus paying high gas taxes and all other taxes while the politicians get a pass along with a free taxpayer car, gas, maintenance etc etc.
If you do this after a hurricane or flood or earthquake it's called price gouging and you get arrested. You have to have the governor's approval to steal.
This system is being implemented on I64 and the tunnels in the Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia areas soon but you have to have a special EZ pass transponder to allow for the "Dynamic" pricing to rob you.
Outrageous traffic, fees, fines and camera tickets are another horrid aspect of the growth of DC government over the past several decades. The District is simply overburdened with workers, residents and vehicles. The streets pattern inside the city limits was purposely designed to foil the advance of ground troops in the 18th century, and does a remarkably good job with cars, trucks and buses as well. The web of highways around the area has become too complex for any driver without an advanced GPS system, even for people who have always lived around DC. One split-second mistaken turn can cost you a twenty-mile detour, many dollars in tolls and an hour or more in lost time.