““Tolls, generally, are expensive to collect,” Peters said in an interview. “It’s not free. There’s a lot of technology and a lot of equipment, and that equipment will have to be maintained and replaced over time.””
I agree. I despise toll roads. Providing highways is a basic function of state and federal government. They get plenty of taxes already. Government should suck it up and eliminate all the tolls. Problem solved!
It would be interesting to have the operating costs laid out for toll roads. I would bet that thirty-percent of all income goes toward daily operating cost.
Agreed. In this case CT has been so poorly run they would be instituting tolls on roads that haven’t had them for decades. For lots of communities, 95 is the only practical road between two places, such as many poor working Joes’ homes and work.
I live in a wealthy town in one such area, and the rich basically favor the tolls as a way to get the riffraff off the roads and cut down on traffic for their own convenience. Pretty disgusting.