noteworthy wrote:
] Social engineering is merging with traffic
] engineering, creating new technologies that charge people
] a variable toll based on how many cars are on the road --
] known as congestion pricing -- or reduce toll rates for high
] occupancy to encourage car-pooling.
]
] It is shaping up as one of the biggest philosophical changes
] in transportation policy since the toll-free interstate
] highway system was created under President Dwight D.
] Eisenhower in 1956.

Howabout let's do something useful with these thoughts -- turn the toll roads into autobahns. If I could drive to columbia SC for $15 and do 120MPH, I'd be there in a heartbeat. Since they would be "private" roads, you could get away with this.

RE: Paying on the Highway to Get Out of First Gear