State and Local Government / Transportation

Kansas City Star Calls for Toll Roads

By David Stokes on Sep 28, 2009

Combest today links to a great editorial in the Kansas City Star advocating that we pay for the proposed truck-only lanes on I-70 with toll roads. Not surprisingly, I agree with every word in it. I’m excited that the Star is supporting such ideas and suggestions as this:

That’s why this plan cries out for a different approach — namely, a toll road. It’s time for Missouri to get over its traditional aversion to tolls.

Or:

Tolls are user fees in their purest form. If you don’t use the road, you don’t have to pay.

I highly recommend the editorial, and look forward to the Show-Me Institute’s own work on transportation and tolling being a part of the debate.

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David Stokes

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