Once electronic toll collection is set up, it rapidly ramps up to the 30 to 40 percent range without trying too hard.

It was one way of not killing the rest of the state's programs.

What's becoming self-evident is that the resources available for maintaining, let alone improving, what we have just aren't there. We've just had a new federal highway bill, which tried its best to provide all that it could, but no one wants to touch fuel tax increases, the traditional way of making it work.

Traditionally, Missouri is not the tolling state. For them to float that - what a concept!

It is a traffic management device. It is done to expedite traffic. It is expensive to put in an electronic toll collection system.