In response to the Sunday article about the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission's salary increase: How can the members justify a 400 percent increase in tolls and then try to make people feel good about it by phasing in the salary increases over five years? In a time of major economic downturn, the tolls increase some people's budgets by $25 a month. Why couldn't the entire project be phased in?
How can they sleep at night knowing that citizens are sitting in a traffic jam that they must now pay for? They call this system the E-ZPass. Is it because it easily passes money from our pockets to theirs?