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[Ken]

I'm with DJ, the cost of setting up a toll process/infrastructure strikes me as costly compared to just goosing the gas tax or something else a little.

Yeah but then how could the Chinese owned toll operating companies make any money?

They are actually from Spain... at least the 495/I66 hotlanes are.

Isn't Transurban Australian? Unless they're owned by some Spanish company.

https://www.transurban.com/roads-and-pro...th-america

i'll have to look through my emails... maybe it was the construction crew and/or the actual tolling infrastructure. I know it wasnt from the good ol' USA... my uncle in Turkey was like "how the hell are you guys letting this happen!?!?"

I ask him the same stuff about his president

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Having a trucking registration fee/passenger registration fee built into our current registrations, or through gas tax is a far more effective and less costly way to tax those using roads.  

 

I am 100% against a gasoline tax for this purpose. The issue isn't people who live on the I-81 corridor, it's the 11 million tractor trailers per year traveling through Virginia on their way to god-knows-where.

A gasoline tax does not impact them. You can fill up wherever diesel is cheap and drive straight through Virginia without stopping. A toll means you don't pay unless you use the road, and an electronic-only toll is pretty inexpensive to implement. A gas tax means the least-offenders, yet greatest-sufferers pay the largest burden. Bullshit, no thank you.

I'm with you on this. but i think we need to adopt the NYC model (what did i just say?)... do you think locals pay all the tolls around that city? at worse they pay a very discounted toll (25 cents vs. $11). free for the people around I81, make the trucks pay!

with this $30 annual fee... they are still trying to get blood out of a stone. I will probably have to buy my inlaws a pass for christmas every year lol.

...What? Is there a discount i am not aware of that makes me pay less for the Holland/Lincoln Tunnel and/or George Washington bridge? 

If you're talking about the Thurway plan(s) which offer some discounts, it is decidedly not 25 cents vs. 11 dollars. More like 28 cents vs. 1 Dollar.  EZ-Pass discounts site.

EDIT: Mostly triggered by the thought that NY/NYC residents somehow only pay 25 cents for tolls - there is a discount, via EZ-Pass. But it's nowhere near that kind of discount. More like $11.52 vs. $17, as an example.