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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uh... isn't that the whole idea tolls on a road? To create a more efficient supply-demand matching (those who place a higher value on time will pay the tolls) and [b]shift lower-value traffic to other alternatives[/b]? One alternative is GW parkway. Seems like the tolls are working.[/quote]

In this case, those lower-value traffic imposes huge negative externalities to the residents of the alternatives, who have paid high price in their housing to live closer to avoid the traffic on I-66.[/quote]

I actually am sympathetic to what you're saying, but I would recommend that you use some of that money to lobby our politicians to build [b]new roads, widen roads,[/b] or enact other incentives or penalties to encourage more use of the silver/orange lines. Because money is sure as hell the only thing that gets politicians to listen[/quote]

Here's what happens when you build new roads or widen roads to reduce congestion:

1. The roads get built/widened.
2. In response, people drive more.
3. Soon the traffic is just as bad as it was.
4. Except that the government spent a whole lot of money on more/wider roads.

It would be just as effective, and much less damaging, to dig a big hole and throw the money down it.[/quote]

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