The phrase "highway fee" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a charge or toll that is required for the use of a highway.
Example: "Traveling on the interstate will require you to pay a highway fee at the toll booths."
Alternatives: "toll charge" or "road usage fee."
Would a highway user fee unfairly impact low-income commuters?
He said the concept of a highway use fee was included as a result of lobbying from environmental groups.
"What we're proposing is to add the equivalent of 5 cents per gallon to the existing federal highway user fee, the gas tax," President Reagan told the country in a 1982 radio address, adding: "The cost to the average motorist would be small, but the benefit to our transportation system will be immense".
Indeed, advocates for an automobile-only approach to transportation spending often complain that money raised by highway "user fees" is deployed to subsidise things like mass transit.
And so the reporter voyaged from the Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres, Spain, and, on, through Paul Cézanne country in southern France, to Italy, spending cash along the way on oysters and highway toll fees with a profligacy that seems heretical in these more straitened times.
Developing in a more compact manner may help at the margin, but the greatest reduction in congestion appears to be achievable through expansion of surface streets and higher highway user fees.
Some background: When the transportation act, known as TEA-21, was enacted in 1998, it tied spending levels to revenue collected by the government from highway user fees (various taxes on fuels, tires and so on) and credited to the highway account of the Highway Trust Fund.
Highway user fees should be proportional to how much people use highways, not how much fuel they use.
Under the new system, vehicles of 12 tons or more are required to pay 1.53 rubles ($0.02) for every kilometer they drive on federal highways, a fee that will rise to 3.6 rubles in March.
VISITOR INFORMATION WHERE TO PLAY Half Moon Bay Golf Links (2 Miramontes Point Road, Half Moon Bay; 650-726-1800; www.halfmoonbaygolf.com) stretches along the coast south of town off Highway 1; greens fees for 18 holes, $135 to $180.
