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Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackerson here with another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today, what's really behind those high toll roads that may be coming to a city near you?

A little bit about how I became interested in the topic that is my cover story.

This week on Full Measure, that'll be Sunday April 4th.

I'm looking at some of those high toll roads. I call them sliding scale tolls.

Maybe you've been to a city where you can get on these express lanes when the traffic is bad.

And the amount of the toll changes depending on how much you need to be on the toll road.

So when you don't really need to be on it because the traffic's not bad, the toll is really cheap.

It may be 20 cents, 30 cents, 50 cents.

But as traffic gets heavier and heavier, and if you're looking at rush hour,

maybe there's some accidents on the main road, the toll is going to go up exponentially.

So if you need to get on the toll road, maybe it's 20 dollars, 30 dollars, 40 dollars just to go a few miles.

In some roads like this, we're going in around the Washington D.C. area in Virginia.

And I don't happen to have to get on these roads much to go to the places I go.

But I know people who do.

And they were really complaining about this, telling me how high the tolls were going.

And it just seemed to be for ordinary commuters completely out of reach.

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