Toll Roads, need I say more?

So I assume if you have been living in the past 2 or 3 days you have heard that the toll roads are going up. Frankly, I am not happy about spending up to $3.50 a day just to get downtown and back, this of course not including gas for my car. When is a […]

March 21, 2008; 9:08 AM • by Scott

So I assume if you have been living in the past 2 or 3 days you have heard that the toll roads are going up. Frankly, I am not happy about spending up to $3.50 a day just to get downtown and back, this of course not including gas for my car. When is a boycott in order for this kind of thing? I mean honestly, 70.00 a month just for tolls is just plain silly. And God forbid you have to pay for parking downtown, you might as well find a job in Chesterfield.

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What do you think? The RTD did a nice job on an article that is worth reading. The comments section really interested me. Here are a couple:

I heard on the radio that the RMA wants to install the “high speed” toll booths to ease the congestion on the parkway. Here is a novel idea, GET RID OF THE DAMN TOLL BOOTHS and you will solve the congestion problems!!!

Take the extra money you have to spend in tolls and make it a point to cut your spending in the city by that amount each week. Then let’s see how funny the city dewellers think tolls are when $200,000 a week less is spent in the city and they can pay more taxes to make up the difference.

70 cents? If RMA is going to slow traffic to a crawl by making drivers search for different denominations of coins, why don’t they just go ahead and bring it to a standstill by making it, say, 67 cents? The people at RMA have obviously never, ever travelled one of their freeways behind people who pay with coins. Make the toll 75 cents, three quarters even, and retain the 5 cent discount for ez-pass users.

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