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During the 34 years of tolls, the turnpike authority collected $550 million from drivers. One of the biggest expenses - $233 million - occurred while tearing down the toll booths and plazas.

I know with inflation, it can be hard to compare amounts paid over a period of decades with today’s buying power of the dollar.

But still, how much did the toll collections really benefit people in Virginia, if it cost so much to end the practice of toll collections?

And the tolls were collected by people, I assume, toll collectors in booths, as this was before we saw EZ Pass type systems in place to collect tolls on toll roads.

So were people paying the toll just to pay the salary of the person who collected the toll???? Was it like a racket in that regard, as opposed to collecting money to fund significant road repair??

And don’t we already pay gas taxes for road repair and maintenance???

Traffic in Northern Va is horrendous. It is often worse on the weekends than during the week. A major portion of the problem is a political machine that wants to force people onto either poorly run or non-existent mass transit.

The major north/south artery on the East Coast and 95 only has three lanes each way with 2 exorbitantly expensive bidirectional toll lanes in the middle. Those toll lanes are a public/private partnership which will always be used to limit any expansion of the regular lanes.

The crooked governor and Northern VA liberals have another grand plan to make toll lanes out of existing lanes on I-66, the other major VA artery into D.C. A total disaster.