Civility (And Lexuses) In Howard

Apparently the vice chairman of the Prince George's County Council thinks his neighbors to the north have it pret-ty easy. Listen to why Tom Dernoga thinks the proposed tolls on the Intercounty Connector are so unfair.

Here's what he said during a public hearing on the subject, according to an account in WaPo.

The Maryland Transportation Authority's board has proposed rush-hour tolls of 25 to 35 cents a mile for two-axle vehicles from 6 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. weekdays. Off-peak rates for two-axle vehicles would range from 20 to 30 cents a mile. The largest trucks would pay as much as $2.63 a mile during peak hours, according to the proposal.

"This is an anti-working-family proposal," Thomas E. Dernoga, vice chairman of the Prince George's County Council, said at the hearing at High Point High School in Beltsville. "It is an anti-working-family road."

Dernoga said lower-income motorists from Prince George's "will be stuck on the Beltway while people coming down from Howard County and Anne Arundel County in their Lexuses are on the Intercounty Connector."