[Political Junkie Too]

You don't think it's like the pricing models that airlines use when they escalate the rates as seats are sold, and then lower them again as the date of the flight approaches?

You don't think that same model raises toIls to maintain overcrowding on the roads, and as long as people keep paying to enter, the fee will rise until people stop paying?

Therefore, the wealthiest in DC have a higher tolerance for the expense and so the fee keeps rising past the point that "ordinary people" are willing to pay?

-PJ

[AndyJackson]

You are dead wrong on all counts.

You don't show up at the airport and then discover then discover the price you are going to pay. You know it when you decide to purchase the ticket.

Second this has nothing to do with tolerance of the wealthiest. The poor are not even using that road anyway. This has to do with political corruption, which this being in the swamp should have been your first presumption until proven wrong.

This is not even the state doing this. This is done by a private contractor who discovered a new way to skim profits off of a contract.

[Axenolith]

I’ve worked the Bay Area freeways for close to 25 years and know them like the back of my hand practically. I think the wealthy are screwed on these because their design appears to make them useless when they’re most needed and they’d be willing to pay it.

The field Caltrans folks know their stuff more often than not, but up at the top in design and at the upper level/political interface they are either corrupt or dumb as a sack of rocks.