August 15: Coin Toss (Style Weekly)
August 16, 2012
Mike Berry, general manager of the Richmond Metropolitan Authority, at the Aug. 6 ribbon cutting for the Downtown Expressway’s open-road toll lanes.
Few people see the beauty in tolls the way Mike Berry does.
Tolls may be one of the fairest forms of taxation — you pay only if you use the road — and in Richmond's case, they led to millions of dollars in economic development. What if the Downtown Expressway system hadn't been constructed in the 1970s, with the addition of the Powhite ...