Introduction

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It’s usually some consolation when you hand over a $5 bill at the toll booth or slow down for E-ZPass: At least the money will go toward keeping this road drivable. But in some cases, that’s no longer a safe assumption. In Northern Virginia, drivers on the Dulles Toll Road are paying more than half the cost of an expansion of the Metro train system. In Ohio, the director of the turnpike authority says its revenue should be used for other projects.

Should revenue from toll roads be spent on other transportation priorities, like public transit?

This discussion was proposed by Sam Staley, the associate director of the DeVoe L. Moore Center at Florida State University.