Reston unrest over old Dulles Toll Road toll system and its disparate per mile tolls, TollRoadsNews.com, June 4, 2012

By Peter Samuel

2012-06-04: Crude cash based toll systems don't arouse equity concerns when tolls are low, but push them up to what the traffic will bear - to revenue maximizing levels - and people look much more closely. Now the Metro Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) is pushing Dulles Toll Road toll rates to the skies to try finance a multi-$billion rail transit extension, and it is facing demands for per-mile toll rates from Reston, about halfway along the northern Virginia pike.

A recent Reston Citizens Association (RCA) pamphlet is headed up "Exorbitant Reston Toll Costs per Mile."

It says: "MWAA must install distance-based tolling on the Dulles Toll Road to prevent the gross inequity in cost-per-mile for Reston and other partial-length toll road users."



The Dulles Toll Road (DTR) currently has one mainline toll plaza near its east end (by Tysons) plus identical ramp tolls at interchanges to the west. . . .

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