If you think you're paying 9 cents a mile, or $2.70/gallon assuming 30 mpg, in gas taxes, no one can help you. No one.

$20 million in gas tax dollars go to pay for this road to keep the costs lower. Assuming 100,000 people live there (which they don't) this is $200 in gas taxes per person, per year. Plus "their" NC 55 widening/bypass up to souther Durham, "their" US 1 expansion through Cary, etc. -- the rest of the Triangle is covering the difference for people who have only beeen paying in for a few years.

The 1989 increase was for two-lanes-in-each direction loops around Charlotte and a few other cities. Republicans demanded more loops to be added (Ashville, Wilmington, Fayetville, Wilson/Kinston 795) and more lanes added to Charlotte, Greensboro, and Raleigh. And didn't raise taxes one dime to pay for any of it. The GOP raided the general fund for sales tax on vehicles and capped the gas tax to force cities and counties to raise taxes to maintain state roads.

I suspect the main users of this road will be professionals who work in RTP and live in Holly Springs or Fuquay. Those folks can afford it, and being able to avoid the hwy 55 parking lot will be well worth it. As for new development in Holly Springs - it's already started.

@ "It boggles my mind that our government can somehow justify tolling only this one community in the whole state. But avoiding it makes no sense. You'll spend the same or more with all the stopping/starting on hwy 55...not to mention the extra wear/tear on your car. So you're wasting a lot more time to get to/from work, for no financial gain."

Avoiding this troll road makes plenty of sense based on principle alone. Take a stand for something or be doomed to fall for anything. The road can rot as far as I am concerned. Merry Christmas!

just in time for the apocalypse! allow those HollySprings folks to run up 540 in order to travel west to avoid the natural disasters!

No thanks.

SailbadTheSinner - your senses are calibrated enough to know if a road is >7% less well maintained for an entire state. Wow. Please explain how you would know if they are >7% less well maintained. I'm guessing that you took into account that Virginia has 18% less road miles than North Carolina.

I would use it because it saves so much time!

yesimagirl: I agree entirely. I have never used the toll road, and as long as it's a toll road I never will.

You'll enjoy it!!

Yay we get ot pay for OUR section of the road while north Raleigh users don't have to pay for theirs- even though we pay the same taxes....Ahem...I don't think so. I shall avoid it entirely.

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