Bad drivers in Virginia beware: Unless your driving habits change, you soon could be ponying up hefty annual payments to the state toward transportation projects.
The Republican-written transportation package includes an abuser-fee program that would charge bad drivers annual sums ranging from $100 to $1,000 for three consecutive years if they want to continue driving.
"It has two advantages," said Delegate David B. Albo, Fairfax County Republican who helped craft the transportation plan. "No. 1, it raises a whole lot of money and advantage No. 2 is it lowers the amount of offenses people commit.
"It will cause a lot of people to think twice before they start going 80 mph down the [Capital] Beltway," he said.
Virginia lawmakers last month agreed on a massive road-and-rail deal, signaling, at least for now, the end of a bitter dispute that had created a fissure in the Republican Party for several years.
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat, is considering how to put his stamp on the bill by meeting with local elected officials and state Republican leaders.
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