[Willie Green]

These highway "privatization" scams should be banned.

[circlecity]

Over $200 a month for the privilge of driving to and from work.

[Leisler]

Use the free road.
Live in town.
Work outside town.
Move.
Stay.
Buy the road.

Free people have free will.

[ltc8k6]

Yes, it’s much better to pay it without realizing it via subsidies for rail lines...

[Dr. Sivana]

That’s nothin’. You pay at least $7 to cross the Verrazano Bridge in NYC (one direction).

I-90 in Chicago can wind up being about $4 if you won’t use iPass.

[RobRoy]

The money line:

“Toll revenue from the road is down, partly because commuters are using Route 28 as an alternative.”

[11Bush]

These highway "privatization" scams should be banned.

Privately built, privately maintained, privately owned. If a commuter considers his time worth the cost of the tolls, that is his decision. If a commuter wants to forgo the cost, there are several public roads available.

This of course is the exact opposite that you preach. You demand that everyone pay for the 'train', if we want to use it or not and then subsidize it's existence forever.

Sorry, can't afford to subsidize anything else. I'm currently contributing to the continued existence of the leaches of our society already.

[guitarplayer1953]

We have been living with a toll road since the mid 50’s here in KS. It was setup to to be a toll road until it was paid off. Every time it has come close to being paid for they do some major changes or up grades and it remains a toll road. It is patrolled by the Kansas highway patrol and I have never gotten a straight answer how a publicly paid organization that the HWP is how they can enforce laws on a private road.

[muawiyah]

It's not a Privatized Highway ~ it is a privately built highway.

The tolls are not out of line with combined Metrorail/Metroparking fees.

Besides, no one ever forced anyone to live out there ~ it's their own choice. I recall distinctly when you could go hunting EVERYWHERE along that route with highpowered rifles and not fear hitting any dwellings, or even an old rusty fence.

The landowners lobbied for the Toll Road at a time when Virginia had far higher priorities elsewhere.

The road got built. The value of the land skyrocketed. Development took place.

The burden of the cost of the road be upon them!

[dennisw]

Those DC parasites can afford it. They are busy over taxing the rest of America so it’s great to see them suffer. More tolls, fees, fines taxes for them!

[golux]

The road was built by Middleburg zillionaire Maggie Bryant... And many say, though paying that toll is like getting knocked over the head with a pipe wrench, the Dulles Greenway extension of 267 was built “fair and square” on freely bought land. I am disgusted by the tolls and refuse to take the toll road... But why don’t people complain instead about widening the “old” Route 7, or creating a faster route from Leesburg to the foothills of the Blue Ridge?