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Toll Study * USA - Raises questions about safety of alternate routes
Increasing tolls and privatization of public roads will lead to more traffic and dangerous conditions on alternate routes
Grain Valley,MO,USA -Land Line Magazine -January 16, 2008: -- ... The authors of an academic study stated in a report released Tuesday, Jan. 15... The study strengthens the position of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association against the U.S. Department of Transportation’s move in recent years to promote tolling and public-private partnerships... Study authors Peter Swan of the University of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, PA, and Michael Belzer of Wayne State University in Detroit used traffic data and toll information from the Ohio Turnpike to illustrate that excessive tolling forces truckers and motorists onto alternative routes... “Additionally, non-interstate roads are inherently more dangerous than interstate roads, so diversions from interstate roads would likely result in greater property damage and greater loss of life,” according to the report...
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