If you don’t want to pay a toll, just don’t leave the city.
Information is sketchy at best, but the federal government may soon propose a toll on cars entering the city via the 14th Street bridge, reports The Examiner.
According to the story, the proposal seems to be nothing more than another one of those fabulous pipe dreams feds float from time to time for improving our city. Like Sen. Sam Brownback’s “flat tax” idea. Or that ingenious plan to give the District back to Maryland instead of just granting us a vote in the House.
The toll idea contains precious few details. The Department of Transportation has apparently not worked out exactly how much they plan to charge, when the toll would start, whether toll booths would be on the Virginia or D.C. side of the river, etc. In fact, the plan was presented with 43 other “options” for relieving congestion. Feds are also investigating water taxis, extending HOV lanes and changing some of the George Washington Parkway’s on and off ramps between the bridge and the Pentagon.
The report with options and details is due sometime next year.
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