This country does not need more evidence of class distinctions. The 1-percenters, the haves and have-nots, etc. But the new I-405 tolling system provides just that. It opens the door on all sorts of evils, wrong on so many levels. The impoverished majority are further degraded and exploited as they are embedded in the congested working-class lanes, while the fortunate few who need not care about added expenses whiz by in their exclusive corridor. By the way, we all paid for those roads.
Whose idea was this anyway? The only “good” thing it may provide is jobs, another inflated bureaucracy for toll barons. State employees from the governor on down should be held accountable for this fiasco. I doubt if it even pays for itself. Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
David Damkaer
Monroe
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