The case study from Orange County, California demonstrates that paid toll roads don't solve traffic problems.
"What did the public transportation agencies -- like Caltrans and the Orange County Transportation Authority -- have to lose? If the toll road diverted traffic from the public freeways, that could delay the need to widen the freeways, and if California Private Transportation Co. wasn't making a profit on the toll road, why would anyone want to build a competing toll road? ... The traffic jams got so bad, in fact, that Caltrans decided to widen the public -- meaning the no-toll -- freeway. That's when the public agencies realized that they were the rubes who just fell off the turnip truck, because of the poison pill provision that prohibited competiton."
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