And by the way, the article is simply LYING when they say it costs 20 to 30 cents per vehicle to operate a highway. Try closer to 2 or 3 cents...although I will admit it becomes more expensive when you have to have an army of people (and/or very expensive equipment) collecting tolls. It also costs more per mile when you toll the highways and push off people to other roads (i.e., highway costs are mostly fixed, so the per mile cost goes up in that case).
Here in Houston, tolling is roughly 10 cents per mile (we haven’t privatized our roads yet), and still our toll road authority has money left over to spend on Harris County side streets.
the sumbiches tolled me 3.00 for driving 1 mile on Texas 121, a highway that was free since the days of Sam Rayburn.