Deseret News | Reader comments: Salt Lake County leaders oppose toll on new road

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Salt Lake County leaders oppose toll on new road

Give Me A Break | 7:58 a.m. Aug. 31, 2008

Tolling, specifically congestion pricing, is the most equitable method of paying for the roads. It's a user fee where the users pay for their usage of the road, unlike sales tax where everyone pays regardless of usage. Also, at $4.00/gal no one is going the raise the gas tax. It's a dying tax anyway.

Rather then being a forward-looking politician, Caroon is just playing short-term pandering politics.

create an equitable toll system | 10:18 a.m. Aug. 31, 2008

UDOT should consider creating an equitable system of toll roads. Perhaps I-215, Legacy, and Mountain View should all be made toll roads. Keep I-80 and I-15 without tolls.

UDOT needs more funding to maintain the highways it maintains. Federal funding will likely be declining and a combination of use taxes and general fund taxes are the fairest way to spread the cost.

hellothere2 | 10:53 a.m. Aug. 31, 2008

What is wrong with the people who use the road paying for the road???

Sure we all pay taxes but those that pay the tolls use the road. What could be more fair or more American?

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mpetrie98 | 9:02 p.m. Aug. 31, 2008

I understand UDOT is thinking of turning the HOV lanes in Salt Lake City into HOT lanes. Perhaps the same can be done with the HOV lanes on the Moutainview Corridor, and the proceeds from all the HOT lanes can be used to help pay off the bonds for the corridor. That way, the rest of the lanes in the corridor can be free.

JD McKenzie | 5:25 p.m. Sept. 1, 2008

I certainly agree that toll roads are a VERY poor idea. However if determined to be absolutley necessary, the first one should be started now on the I-215 east side from I-15 to I-80 and include Knudsens Corner. This new toll road could be up and operating very quickly and also provide a method to further tax the ski tourist trade. Then there are the expensive Park City interchanges and connecting roads and...

Re: Give Me A Break | 11:58 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Corroon is just being reasonable. There is nothing wrong with toll roads, they work quite well in areas that have implemented them properly, but to make Mountain View a toll road when there are no other toll roads in the valley is simply unfair (and yes, I'm an eastsider). A western beltway should have been planned years ago allowing for an express north-south toll road to be placed in the middle of the valley. Too late for that now...

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