Reply #5: My take on our toll road in Houston - Beltway 8 [View All]

[muse]

I love it. It's huge - goes around the entire west and south side of the city. Very convenient and fast. I use it all the time and have an EZ pass. I can afford it. The bad news is that many people cannot afford it. Many people I work with - hourly employees, especially - either don't use it all because they can't afford it, so they use other roads or freeways that are very crowded or they don't use the EZ pass lanes and sit forever in the cheaper pay as you go lanes on the toll road. So yeah, it benefits those of us who can afford it the most and the lower income people the least. They aren't getting the benefit of an efficient, convenient highway system.