Ugh!! I'll be re-routing trips around this toll, much the same way I avoid tolls heading north on I-95 to Philadelphia.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010/may/11/toll11_20100510-222607-ar-160769/

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Current:
2014 VW Tiguan SEL 4Motion 43,000 miles.

2016 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport (wife's).

Past:
2006 Jetta TDI 135,970 miles. Sold Nov. '13.
1995 E-320 Special Edition. 220,200 miles. Sold Sept. '07.
1987 190-E 16 valve. 153,000 miles. Sold Feb. '06.
1980 300-D 225,000 miles. Donated to the National Kidney Foundation.
1980 240-D manual, 297,500 miles. Totaled by inattentive driver.

A user fee. I have no problem with it. In theory.
In practice, lemme see the details. Be nice to have the blown recaps cleaned off the roadway regularly doen that away.

...until the legislature figures out how to divert the money directly into the General Fund like "earmarks" often do.

I'm sort of ambivalent when it comes to tolls. All of the states surrounding CT have some toll roads/bridges. So with the highest fuel prices in the northeast, we get a lot of through traffic between NY and Boston with very little revenue coming back in. I've already got EZ-Pass that I use throughout the northeastern state including NY and NJ. With the transponders you don't even need tollbooths anymore.

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'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

You don't need tollbooths, but you get to have your car's location spied upon at will with EZ-Piss.

Aren't fuel taxes Fed and State already the most accurate user fees. The reality is a toll will target one group of users, those who drive I-95 but users of all the other roadways will not be charged that fee. Any chance tolls collected on I-95 will be put in an Only I-95 Maintainence/Improvment "Lock-Box"?

How about monitoring traffic flow and apportioning the user fee/fuel taxes accordingly. They already monitor commercial traffic at weigh stations and adding license plate monitoring capability should be pretty simple if the capability is not already in place at every bridge and tunnel ala` DHS.

If the issue is a lack of revenue how about privatizing the road, get rid of the involvment of state Highway Dept. employee unions and prevailing wage union construction requirements. It is possible that someone can manage it more efficiently than RICO'd politicised union hacks.

Just what we need, more spyware on our roads. Yep. Actually the fairest would be a tire tax with longer-wearing tires being taxed higher, same with truck tires. Heavier vehicles wear tires down quicker, so it would even be proportional to the impact of the vehicle on the road. Combine it with annual inspections to make sure people aren't riding around on bald tires.

This would act as a per mile tax regardless of what roads are used and what fuel the car uses.

Why not just pay your home state a flat per-mile fee for each mile you accrue on each vehicle you own? The state can mandate that each vehicle be equipped with an OnStar-like system that provides your odometer reading to your state DMV once per month. The fee could be automatically debited from the financial account of your choice. Oops! NSF in that account? No problem, just program the OnStar system to disable the ignition switch under those circumstances, and turn those deadbeats into instant pedestrians.

More spying. You really want to give the government that much power over your personal possessions? What about hackers? Or the possiblity that it would be used for tracking of location as well as miles?

If You would like to see the entire length of the 95 turned into a toll road--and sold to a spanish or other euro countrys private buig buisness,

Then support dICK pEERY for president!

Chicago Skyway, Chicago parking meters, both privatized in recent years.
Can you guess which way their user fees went?

I'll make it easy for you, don't pick down.

I like toll roads for exactly the reasons most of you hate them: You hate to pay for the road on which you travel. I ain't traveling on your durned roads up yonder in yankeeland so why should I pay for them? And vice versa, of course.

They should install a "Yankee Uturn" on the northern most border of Virginia requiring all yankees to make an immediate Uturn and go back where they came from.

we don't Spurn all those "Yankee" Dollars comin a'visitin.

The U.S Interstate System is right about NOW beyond it's useful lifespan
WITHOUT a Massive Infrastructure Re-Build.

We're all acting like Ostriches about it!

The VA plan is all about Revenue Diversion,NONE of those monies will go to
I-95's upkeep.

(Where's the MONEY gonna come from?)
The Tolls needed would be Astronomical.
[Between $75 and $100 per vehicle, per Toll both, per trip.]
[Feds will not put up that kinda Moola.]
AND most of the State's are eying Chpt. 13.

The Bureaucracy (s) STILL haven't UNDERSTOOD we're LOOKING at 1929
DOWN BOTH BARRELS.
Profligate spending,Etc.,Etc.,Etc.
Congress should surrender it's pay and benefits and work Gratis.

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Such a tax would be unfair to people who drive less than the average. Their tires would need replacement due to aging before they were worn out. As a result, they would be forced to pay a higher tax rate.

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MD is looking to hike tolls on the Bay Bridge and I 95. These roads and bridges are already self-supporting so it is a way to hide a tax that goes to the General Fund.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags