Isnt it obvious that toll collection creates congestion?

On Tue, 02 May 2006 13:11:43 -0700, John David Galt
> wrote:

>223rem wrote:
>> I spent the weekend in Chicago and nearly went insane sitting hours
>> in the stop and go traffic preceding toll collection booths on various
>> interstates
>> in the are. Chicago interstates are congested enough, but the toll
>> plazas makes
>> them hell on earth.
>>
>> What is the logic, anyway? The wasted gas and time
>> and the resulting air pollution and road rage, etc harms the city far
>> more than what is
>> gained by toll collection. It'd be far more effective to simply finance
>> road construction
>> with tax money and do away with this primitive toll collection system.
>>
>
>Electronic toll passes are well on their way to solving this problem,
>but we need to press our state DOTs to rebuild toll plazas so that
>pass-holders can go past them at full speed.

We need to press our states to eliminate toll roads...

Dave Head

Jim Yanik wrote:
>IMO,even those without autos benefit from roads,so they also should be
>taxed for them

They would pay anyway, though indirectly. All of the deliveries,
transportation of goods they walk to buy, etc., would pay the tax to
operate the business.