By Martin Di Caro
Higher tolls are coming to the Dulles Toll Road next January. The question remains how high.
The public had its first chance to weigh in on projected toll
increases at an open house Thursday night organized by the Metropolitan
Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), the agency running the Silver Line
rail project that will heavily rely on increased toll revenues for its
financing.
The Silver Line is a 23-mile rail link connecting Washington, D.C to
Dulles International Airport and beyond into the Virginia suburbs. Its
projected cost is $5.5 billion.
Effective January, the one-way full toll would increase to $2.75,
then to $3.50 in 2014, and $4.50 in 2015, under current toll
projections. Rates would continue to rise two dollars every five years
for the next four decades unless other sources of funding are secured to
mitigate the toll increases.
“It’s ridiculous,” . . . .
For the rest of this article on the absurdity of MWAA's "public hearings" on the Dulles Toll Road,
please click here.
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