[Young Scholar]

I consider toll roads and bridges the conservative option. The alternative is taxpayer funding, and it is inevitably fairer (and more free-market) to use a user-pays system than a taxpayer-funded system.

[Tribune7]

The alternative is taxpayer funding

Taxpayers are paying whether through tolls or fuel tax or whatever.

What toll roads do (besides bottlenecks and unnecessary leavel of government bureacracy) is hide the cost. For instance there is a myth that only cost is to users. There are, however, many people who take secondary roads solely to avoid the cost of tolls thereby adding to wear and congestion on those roads, not to mention a likely unproductive use of their time.

Then there are shippers who basically have to use the toll roads but pass on their cost to their customers.

Then, there are shippers who avoid ports of entry that would otherwise make more sense due to the cost of tolls.

But as revenue devices toll roads are inefficient at collection and unnecessary hindrance to travel.

Anyway, we aren't trying to shrink government or help the economy by advocting the end of toll roads. We are trying to stop global warming AND SAVE THE CHILDREN!!!!!

[Doctor Stochastic]

I consider toll roads and bridges the conservative option.

The toll booth delays can be ameliorated by just tracking everyone by GPS and automatically charging their bank account.