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UDOT to gauge tolls electronically
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Clearly, UDOT's plan is simply to enroll more cars in its program to increase its revenue. If that isn't true, why doesn't UDOT present projections of revenue using the current system, versus its new peak pay system?
We have two choices: pay congestion tolls or pay even more through increased sales taxes. The state is still more than $15 billion short over the next 20 years. To build and maintain the roads, the money had to come from somewhere. Congestion tolls are the lowest cost alternative. Doing nothing is not an alternative.
You may argue that this does nothing to ease peak congestion. So what. Neither will a toll. You think people like driving in congestion? No. They do because they have to. They have no other choice. Adding a special fee will only tax disproportionately. It will do nothing to ease congestion.
Increase the sales tax or shut up.
No, Mr. Deputy Diretor, it's not _US_ who've forgotten who pays the gas tax, it's _YOU_ and all the Gov's rich buddies. And we don't need expensive lessons from rich elites to teach us how to stay out of your way.
We're also painfully aware that you and the Gov's rich, elite friends intend to hassle us off the roads to open them up for those of you that can afford to pay more to travel on them. It may be nice for you, but what about us that have to travel the roads to work and support our families?
It's amazing that, when the elitist Envision Utah crowd's alternate day-license plate scam failed, they went with an even more cynical and oppressive regime -- tolls.
Please, Carlos, remind the Gov that there are more of us than there are of the Envision Utah elites. Please do it before election day.
It's the rich, out-of-touch elitists who are making it hard on the little guy by coming up with these cynical schemes to charge people for the use of the roads they built with their own tax money, and that they desperately need to get by, day-to-day.
FYI: The separate lanes on I-5 in Seattle are FREE! It was added to reduce traffic. All of the lanes are southbound in the morning and northbound in the evening. It also has an HOV lane in addition to the regular lanes.
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If so, I am definitly be against this action.