Cheap Tolls

I have a navigation system in my car. It is very convenient; especially for guiding me in cities I don’t know.

I also have an electronic toll paying device in my car. We call it ETC. With the ETC, we get extra discounts.

The navigation system calculates tolls, but it does not account for discounts. Today we drove from Ise to Hamamatsu. The navigation system said the toll would be 5300 yen, but it was actually 1000 yen.

I think 5300 yen is too expensive, but 1000 yen is too cheap. Money from tolls is needed to help repair and maintain the roads. If the toll is too low, then we will have to pay more taxes.

The current government wants to make the toll roads free. I think it is a kind of lie, because the maintenance is not free. We must find the money somewhere, so they will ask for more taxes.