I couldn’t resist making another reference to the fact that the tolls are going up tomorrow by 67% to 100%, depending on where you get on or off. And not one penny of that money is going to be spent on improving the daily commute of the user’s of the toll road. Rather that money is going to be wasted on the rail to Dulles boondoggle that does nothing to alleviate traffic congestion and will do a lot to attract even more traffic on this toll road and other adjacent roads, as building densities go up.
And the wasteful spending has already begun, even before one additional penny was collected from the toll increase. As reported by channel 7 in Washington, the state is paying $480,000 for their PR blitz. Half-a-million dollars spent for TV ads advertising that the tolls are going up. Do you need a more flagrant example of waste of taxpayer dollars than this?