A toll is effectively the same as a tax, except you are paying it in the middle of a journey, which slows down travel times and clogs up smaller roads due to people wanting to avoid expensive toll roads. It is a less efficient system.
This is why you use an e-tag system.
Also it means those getting the benefit of the roads use the infrastructure are the ones who pay for it. I only am amenable to a toll for a period until the cost of the road is paid off.
Otherwise it's just another drip feeding cash grab from the government. Or a private business which has no incentive to stop charging.
Those two notions are contradictory, though. On the one hand, you’re advocating the use of a system that would probably be costly to implement and would require people to make a change and buy the user side of a system - given the costs to both the government and population, this is a change generally advisable only if the system is going to be permanent.
On the other hand, you’re then saying that all toll roads should be temporary until it’s paid off. Doesn’t make much sense to me.
