toll discounts

Taro, a blogger from Tokyo highlights the unintended consequences of political pandering on toll rates. Taro normally pays about Y12,000 ($120) in tolls to get his favorite weekend/holiday destination on the island of Shikoko and the 800km (500 miles) is normally about an 11 hour drive.

A Rhode Island business college professor Carol Surprenant has launched a class action suit against the two Massachusetts tollers over their local residents toll discounts. She is questioning the constitutionality of the Turnpike's Tunnel Communities Resident Program under which residents of East and South Boston and the North End living near the Boston harbor tunnels get deeply discounted tolls.