Happy New Year! Tolls Increased on Dulles Toll Road

Here's an article about the recent rate hike on the Dulles Toll Road from Toll Road News.

"Typical tolls on the Dulles Toll Road in northern Virginia rose from $1.25 to $1.75 or 40% Friday, Jan 1. This is the first of three annual toll increases aimed to raise tolls 80 percent by 2012 that were formally adopted by the toll operator -- Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) -- last year."

The article also notes that "traffic on the DTR as measured by toll transactions is expected to decline from a daily 295k transactions at present to 280k in 2010, 274k in 2015, 260k in 2020 and 252k from the mid-2030s onward."

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