Leveraging Innovation to Solve a Complex Problem Building roads and transit systems is a state responsibility. The Northern Virginia business community supports the use of bonds to pay for transportation assets. Every effort must be made to ensure participation in funding the necessary maintenance and improvements to our transportation network by those who use our transportation facilities and, in some cases, don t otherwise contribute to funding transportation improvements. Such fees could provide a dedicated revenue source that could be bonded. The Northern Virginia business community will proactively look for situations where toll financing is appropriate.
Tolls are a user fee paid by users of a transportation asset.
The funds provided by the Dulles Toll Road have financed its construction, expansion and will help fund mass transit in the corridor. The Northern Virginia business community will proactively work for the creation of transportation-based special tax districts where they make sense. The creation of landowner-approved special tax districts to fund transportation improvements is part of the solution. As an example, in the early 1990s, Route 28 was widened to six lanes utilizing a special tax district. Currently, two proposals have been received to further widen Route 28 and construct grade separated interchanges by 2005.