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- Path: sparky!uunet!metter!openage!ghost
- From: ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host)
- Subject: Re: Dulles Toll Road
- Organization: Open Age, Inc.
- Distribution: dc
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:58:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.215833.13048@openage.openage.com>
- References: <1992Aug13.154638.19536@eco.twg.com> <1992Aug13.211344.17238@uunet.uu.net>
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- tale@ten.uu.net (David C Lawrence) writes:
-
- >In <1992Aug13.154638.19536@eco.twg.com> skip@eco.twg.com (Skip Koppenhaver):
-
- >> On Sept. 1 the newly added third lane of the Dulles Toll Road becomes HOV3.
-
- >Incidentally, I pretty much think that the toll plaza going up into
- >Rt 7 from toll road east is a crock too. Then again, there is an
- >anomalous free entry point from just a quarter of a mile west of it.
-
- Does anyone know if the Route 7 East is going to be $.50 or $.25?
- I usually get off at 7 and pay nothing when I go to Tysons but if
- Route 7 is $.50 and Westpark remains $.25 then I'll take Westpark.
- [Westpark is the exit next to the current toll booth]
-
- >It's sort of sad that the bullshit of the toll road encourages regular
- >commuters like me to actually use the secondary roads.
-
- >> HERNDON AND RESTON RESIDENTS UNITE!!! Go to the window, stick your
- >> head out and yell, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it
- >> anymore!". Then go write your state representative and tell him the
- >> same thing! Maybe if we make enough noise they'll remove the HOV
- >> restriction.
-
- >Do the latter, but not the former. Yelling at the person who would
- >probably much rather be doing something else than collecting tolls
- >from hostile commuters --- and who doubtless has no more power than
- >you to change the system --- is just poor manners.
-
- I agree on the use of HOV lanes but not on Toll Roads - you
- pay the same amount of money so why should you get less service.
- AN it is bull to say it is publicly fianced when the toll road
- generates a surplus every year. Same with motorcycles since
- they take about the same amount of space on the road.
-
- And since the toll plaza operators are people who choose
- a job willingly if they don't like people complaining they can
- take a different job; if all toll plaza operators started
- complaining about commuters complaining made it would make an
- impression on the goverment officials.
-
- P.S. there would not be a toll road if earlier public officals
- hadn't screwed up when the original Dulles access road was built
- and agreed to pay for the extra lanes.
-
- --
-
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