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Drivers see I-66 tolls fluctuate frantically, top out at $34.50
WTOP ^ | December 4,2017 | Reem Nadeem

Posted on 12/04/2017 9:20:02 AM PST by Hojczyk

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To: mistfree
The point of the fluctuating toll lanes is to keep drivers out of them

Which would make them pointless.

The real purpose is to gouge the maximum amount of money possible from the captive population. And most of the money does not go to building or sustaining roads either.

This only works when you have a monopoly control of a market and the ability to lock out other alternatives.

41 posted on 12/04/2017 11:11:43 AM PST by flamberge (What next?)
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To: Hojczyk

I am so glad that I have extracted myself from the cesspool.


42 posted on 12/04/2017 11:19:03 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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Lol. Swamp creatures feel the sting of leftist bureaucratic stupidity.


43 posted on 12/04/2017 11:36:06 AM PST by DnPRK
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I saw several tweets today from mid-level govt bureaucrats demanding a pay raise to combat these prices. LOL.


44 posted on 12/04/2017 11:52:58 AM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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The perfect scam: Use taxpayers money to build a road and then charge taxpayers to drive on it. Don’t steal, the government hates competition.


45 posted on 12/04/2017 1:50:38 PM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: Hojczyk
This is literary highway robbery.
46 posted on 12/04/2017 2:02:37 PM PST by freedom1st
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To: palmer

Don’t they still have them on the Dulles toll road? I drive to Dulles a couple times a year and haven’t paid attention.

Wonder how slow you can go in these toll lanes before you could get ticketed. That be a great way to protest if you had the time and money (but who does?)


47 posted on 12/04/2017 7:04:07 PM PST by lizma2
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Just heard the toll was up to $40 today. Spokesperson said they are trying to incentivize people to use mass transit or add a person in their car.

Also said they estimate that around 40% were scofflaws, and if they want to use the highway they’ll have to pay.

I think many are likely unaware due to inadequate marketing of the changes. Also, I’ve noticed a huge increase in signage on the highway: it is impossible to read them all when traveling at speed.


48 posted on 12/05/2017 9:16:24 AM PST by deks
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Yes, there are manned booths at the Tysons toll plaza on the Dulles toll road, and some of the on and off ramp booths are manned during the day


49 posted on 12/05/2017 5:09:34 PM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: lizma2

Yes, there are manned booths at the Tysons toll plaza on the Dulles toll road, and some of the on and off ramp booths are manned during the day


50 posted on 12/05/2017 5:09:34 PM PST by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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