Washington state drivers shouldn’t have to play pricing games when it comes to their daily commute. Variable rate tolling on state highways and bridges discriminates against workers and their families based upon the time of day they happen to be due into work, and now the state Department of Transportation is already in the process of implementing a toll rate increase along Highway 520 less than a year after the system began.
Drivers should be assured of what rate they will be paying regardless of the time of day they’re driving or method of pay their using. It’s time to abolish the current discriminatory system of variable rate tolling and preferential treatment for certain drivers who prepay their tolls with a flat-rate, anytime/any pay method of tolling.
It’s time for a clear and honest system of flat-rate tolling: a $7 per day round-trip toll provided that the driver uses both trips within a 12-hour period, and a $4 per trip one-way toll on any bridge or highway, anytime and by any method of payment.
No one should have to pay an hour’s worth of wages simply to use the road to get to their job.
Brian Travis
Bothell
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