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Not if you make them high-speed toll lanes like they will have on the ICC and like they have in countries such as Chile (funny how despite being "#1", we're still behind some countries on things like that).
I was waiting for someone to use the high speed toll. So everyone must own a EZ Pass just to enter the city? I find that preposterous. DC isn't the only city with terrible roads. I find driving in Baltimore much worst than in DC.
I was waiting for someone to use the high speed toll. So everyone must own a EZ Pass just to enter the city? I find that preposterous. DC isn't the only city with terrible roads. I find driving in Baltimore much worst than in DC.
Baltimore's roads are an embarrassment and a hazard. I hate driving there.
Bad idea, roads would have to be reconstructed for toll plazas
Nope. Modern toll systems use transponders and cameras. If you don't have a transponder, you can pay the toll for your license plate # either in advance or afterwards -- or else you'll get a bill mailed to you.
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There are switch tracks at or near every end point I just named
Ah, yes. There are indeed crossover tracks throughout the system, per this track schematic diagram. There aren't many pocket tracks (a third track in the middle that trains pull into from one side and then back out of on the other side, which is usually how trains get short-turned), but at such lengthy headways you can always short-turn using single-track operations and crossover tracks. It's more elegant to cross over before the terminal, though, using crossover tracks just "inside" the terminal station, which means that Woodley, Southern Avenue, and West Hyattsville would make better terminals than DuPont, Anacostia, or Fort Totten.
I was waiting for someone to use the high speed toll. So everyone must own a EZ Pass just to enter the city? I find that preposterous. DC isn't the only city with terrible roads. I find driving in Baltimore much worst than in DC.
That's what they've got in Chile for the main highways in Santiago I believe.
They could also just limit it to the central business district.
DC area highways should have tolls. Imagine charging everyone $1 for getting on the Beltway; at its max there are 200,000 people on a certain stretch, annually that works out to around $60m.
DC area highways should have tolls. Imagine charging everyone $1 for getting on the Beltway; at its max there are 200,000 people on a certain stretch, annually that works out to around $60m.
Why do they need more tax money? Use what they get more efficiently first. If they need more money then raise the gas tax and forget tolls!
AFAIK only on the Dulles Toll Road and that doesn't really go into DC.
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