The I-66 Beltway toll hit $46.50 on Tuesday

[EarthFirst]

The toll on Interstate 66 inside the Capital Beltway reached $46.50 for a solo driver during the Tuesday morning rush, just below a record of $47.25 set last month.

Michelle Holland, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Transportation, said there wasn’t a specific cause for the spike in the toll price.

“Tolls are based on congestion,” she said. “The more congested it is, the higher the toll, and that’s how we manage demand for the lanes so people who are on the lanes have free-flowing traffic.”

The I-66 tolls, which are meant to encourage drivers to carpool or use public transportation inside the Beltway, have raised criticism among some drivers since they began in December. Solo drivers who travel on those 10 miles of I-66 at peak periods are charged based on a “dynamic pricing” system that changes every six minutes, depending on traffic volumes and speeds.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/02/13/the-toll-on-i-66-inside-the-beltway-hit-46-50-on-tuesday/?utm_term=.6a15bca84881

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. ?46.50 one way?

How do people afford that?

[BoneyardDem]

2. that is outrageous. is it privitized?

[EarthFirst]

4. You guessed it!

Virginia awards contract for I-66 under new approach that saves state $2.5 billion

http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/general-assembly/virginia-awards-contract-for-i--under-new-approach-that/article_5f76e8e6-4871-57dd-9c4d-49f091f8a787.html

[crazylikafox]

3. This is Trump's infrastructure plan.

I'm not joking. This is how he thinks he can pay for it. Give (sell for a pittance) our roads & bridges to his cronies, & let them charge us whatever they want to let us use them.

[EarthFirst]

5. +1

It’s a trillion dollar giveaway!

[onethatcares]

8. and the maintenance will suffer

due to profitablility. Can't be spending those dollars on the upkeep of anything, gotta bet another island and an airplane to get to it on.

[oasis]

6. Make America Great Again

[gibraltar72]

7. I wrote a letter to the editor

several years ago and predicted that would be Republicans solution. Give the roads and bridges that we paid for to private entities. Then they would charge us to use the roads and bridges we originally paid for. Great deal huh.

[unblock]

9. every 6 minutes? do you have the opportunity to change lanes if the price goes up??

even if you do, it's crazy to have to make a price-based decision and possible lane change every 6 minutes.

[FSogol]

10. It is free if you have 2 or more people in your car. N/t

[MineralMan]

11. That's important information.

Thanks.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. Multiply this by tens of thousands of times and you have Trump's "Infrastructure Plans"

Privatize them and make his golfing friends richer.