It is a traffic management device. It is done to expedite traffic. It is expensive to put in an electronic toll collection system. |
It was one way of not killing the rest of the state's programs. |
Once electronic toll collection is set up, it rapidly ramps up to the 30 to 40 percent range without trying too hard. |
Traditionally, Missouri is not the tolling state. For them to float that - what a concept! |
What's becoming self-evident is that the resources available for maintaining, let alone improving, what we have just aren't there. We've just had a new federal highway bill, which tried its best to provide all that it could, but no one wants to touch fuel tax increases, the traditional way of making it work. |