Let's give truckers the wrong incentives

Courtesy AustinContrarian  Wed, 05/06/2009 - 12:00pm

T20 I understand that people bitterly oppose tolling roads.

I really do. I was discussing congestion pricing the other day with one of my co-workers. I told her that if I were dictator, the first thing I'd do is congestion price I-35.

 She told me the first thing she'd do is have my wife put arsenic in my drink. Since she is an intelligent, well-educated attorney who lives in the 'burbs -- and would benefit from congestion...


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