Bay Area transportation officials want to hear from the public about ways to fix congested freeways. One of the options they're considering: Turning those freeways into tollways, and charging drivers by the mile.
Bay Area transportation officials want to hear from the public about ways to fix congested freeways.
One of the options they're considering: Turning those freeways into tollways, and charging drivers by the mile. But what about paying a toll for every mile you drive on the Bay Area's busiest freeways?On Tuesday night at 6 p.m., the Metropolitan Transportation Commission is inviting the publicIn an initial meeting, MTC representative Alex Eisenhart explained that the Bay Area needs to plan for the decades ahead, through the year 2050.
They want that plan to include things like better public transit and rail service, express bus lanes and networks, safer streets for cyclists and pedestrians and discouraging more driving on already crowded freeways - by charging a toll per mile.All the news you need to know, every day
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