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Letter: Make them pay for using the road

Sunday, July 29, 2007 | 7:04 a.m.

We in the West are so used to freeways that we forget (unless we drive back East) that many of the roads around Chicago are such that you stop every few miles to throw change into a bucket at a booth, or that there are the New York Thruway, the Massachusetts Turnpike and the granddaddy of them all, the Pennsylvania Turnpike. All of them cost money to use.

But New Hampshire has a system that would work here in places such as the new bridge going up just down river from Hoover Dam. If you drive Interstate 495 from Massachusetts to Maine, every car pays a toll to get by the tool booth (you can go the other way for free).

For Boulder City, which wants to build a bypass, and for commuters from the new communities beginning to go up along the road from Hoover Dam to Kingman, Ariz., who want a faster trip, this sounds to me like a win-win situation.

George Appleton, Las Vegas

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