"Does anybody have a dime?"
People have to pay to drive on a road?! Wow, just wow. Glad I live in a place that has no toll roads.
Simple solution: put our prison population to work on our infrastructure. Cheaper than a Mexican.
We already pay gas taxes. And in some states, those taxes are pretty steep, on top of the federal gas tax. And some states, such as California, charge sales tax on gas, in addition to the other taxes.
We have been told that gas tax money is dedicated to road maintenance. Is this not true? What are we missing? How is it that this road was free for decades, now all of a sudden, the state of Virginia has decided to turn it into a toll road?
Vote in commies and get commie non-solutions to problems - expensive activities that at best, do not improve anything and generally make them much worse.
Areas around DC were just reported to have the highest paid salaries in the country. Or some such thing.
The American workplace needs to change. Telecommuting, flex-time, e-meetings, and 4 day weeks needs to become the rule, not the exception. People need to be paid for their work, not their hours (and not just in a piecework fashion, but in an actual percentage of contribution manner).
The 1950s paradigm of everyone driving to work at the same time is ridiculous in the Information Age.
"Does anybody have a dime?"
I read that the toll goes up as it gets more crowded. I wonder if the congresscritters get free toll passes. It would be like our elected ‘betters’ have their own private road that they can up the price on when it gets too crowded with regular joes.
Good, why should others, who don’t drive on that road pay for its upkeep.
Imagine a future with self-”driving” cars, with every road a toll road. Those self-”driving” cars require you to register your age, race, sexual orientation, “gender”, and religion with the car, so the “equitable death algorithm” can decide if you live or die in an accident.
That is what the left wants for us.
$40 is nothing for a rich person. But it could be half a day’s pay for a poor person. This is just another example of the Republican’s war on the poor!
Oh, wait. Democrats thought this one up. Never mind.
Carpoolers drive for free. Put a mannequin in the passenger seat. Or Bernie.
I used to drive I-66 every day from Arlington to Fairfax for work. I haven’t been over there in a while, my health is horrible and I can’t afford to renew my tags right now, but the usual arrangement is that there are toll express lanes and free lanes that you sit in traffic in. Not sure if that’s the case here.
Why isn’t that “price gouging”?
So if the politicians decide to build a one lane road instead of a 4 lane highway with your money, they can now care you $40 bucks to drive on it because it’s so crowded.
Great way to get paid the big bucks for being incompetent.
“Those who carpool, with at least one other person, can drive for free.”
With that kind of pricing, having only one passenger should get just a 33% price reduction, instead of being free. Then with two passengers a 66% reduction and finally free with three or more passengers. How to police that? No idea. LOL
Worse. In a rental car (tourist OR business) you pay an extra 4.95 per day for the “privilege “ of using the radio EZ pass to pay tolls, up to 25.00 per trip. Otherwise, pay cash at each toll booths.
“Those who carpool, with at least one other person, can drive for free. “
That’s unfair. Should be more passengers required- 2 or 3.
Or half-price.
I wonder if a car-carrier rig could make a buck...
Fifteen years ago it was said 1 in 8 people in the US were illegal. Imagine what that number is today. Ya think the problems with our infrastructure just might be the large number of illegals? Deport them and we might not have to build new schools and hospitals and we might have enough drinking water and our roads might not have to have so much maintenance.
The same outrageous toll rates. Those $15/hr burger flippers need another raise. They make $120 gross per 8 hour shift so say $20 of that is taken out leaving $100 per day take home. Subtract $80 round trip to work for tolls so they only have $20 at the end of the day which isn't enough to get them to work the next morning.
What ten miles are subject to the toll?
Are all 5 lanes subject to toll or just the extreme left lane?