[TCMetro] Re: Toll Roads vs annual fees

[Ann Treacy]

It seems as if there ought to be a way to use the stop lights on the highway 
entrances to collect tolls. Very often some space is there in the form of 
the carpool entrance. Paying the toll would slow folks down. The toll taker 
could wave on the carpool cars (if there was a decision not to charge 
carpools). 

This isn�t necessarily the best-thought out plan but it�s one direction. In 
Chicago toll booths can bring traffic to a painful stop. Since we already 
have a painful stop at the entrance we might as well think about how to use 
it.       Ann 

Eva Young writes: 

I think Terrell made some good arguments for Senator Day's plan to charge 
for the use of the 394 HOV lane.  Then there was some discussion of toll 
roads.  It seems to me one major issue with implementing toll roads is 
coming up with a way to add the toll booths -- that's alot of extra lanes 
at those areas -- and lots of land needed for that.  Are there other ways 
of charging for road use that can avoid this physical need for toll 
booths? 

 

Eva Young
Near North
Minneapolis
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