Toll tax on IJP road. Why? (Messed up and illogical implementation of CDA setup)
This is a question for CDA and also for the travelers of IJP road, Rawalpindi / Islamabad (Road originating from Peer Wadahi More on Peshawar road)
Under what logic or criteria is a local traveler who is using IJP road to travel between Sadar Rawalpindi to I-10 or I-9 or New Katarian or Double Road Rawalpindi and is not coming in from outside the city forced to pay toll on IJP road toll plaza (and its not about the money its the illogical way of setting it up by CDA that is bothering me). When I say out side the city I mean someone coming in from out side the twin cities of Rawalpindi / Islamabad.
Why is there no difference between some one traveling locally (physically and logically) using that road and someone coming in from outside the city?
With our rapidly expanding city limits why has that toll plaza not been moved further out of the city instead of leaving it where it is?
Why are you suppose to pay toll when you are traveling from Sadar to say I-10 but are not paying anything when you travel the same distance on the opposite side of that same road to travel between I-10 to Sadar as there is no toll plaza on the opposite side.
People who argue that entering into Islamabad you have to pay toll tax then why is there no toll plaza when entering Islamabad from Double Road Rawalpindi or through faizaabad or through Muree road.
Why a traveler going from Sadar to I-10 using Muree road not paying anything but the same traveler going from Sadar to I-10 using IJP road is forced to pay and by the way which is the more logical choice for the local traveler? Which is shorter? Obviously IJP road.
I am of the view that local travelers are wrongfully being charged toll on that particular stretch of road. Just because they have to travel through the toll plaza does not mean they are coming from outside the city and CDA should promptly provide a remedy for this illogical and wrongful tax charging of local travelers.