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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Reston unrest over old Dulles Toll Road toll system and its disparate per mile tolls, TollRoadsNews.com, June 4, 2012
By Peter Samuel
2012-06-04: Crude cash based toll systems don't arouse equity concerns
when tolls are low, but push them up to what the traffic will bear - to
revenue maximizing levels - and people look much more closely. Now the
Metro Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) is pushing Dulles Toll Road
toll rates to the skies to try finance a multi-$billion rail transit
extension, and it is facing demands for per-mile toll rates from Reston,
about halfway along the northern Virginia pike.
A recent Reston Citizens Association (RCA) pamphlet is headed up "Exorbitant Reston Toll Costs per Mile."
It
says: "MWAA must install distance-based tolling on the Dulles Toll Road
to prevent the gross inequity in cost-per-mile for Reston and other
partial-length toll road users."
The Dulles Toll Road (DTR)
currently has one mainline toll plaza near its east end (by Tysons) plus
identical ramp tolls at interchanges to the west. . . .
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