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THE REGION
Fees on Dulles Toll Road Rise
Commuters will be paying a higher fee today to use the Dulles Toll Road.
Tolls at the highway's main plaza increased yesterday from 50 cents to 75 cents. The toll at the Route 28 ramp is up from 35 cents to 50 cents. And tolls at all other ramps have risen from 25 cents to 50 cents.
It's the first such increase since the Northern Virginia highway opened in 1984. The additional revenue will help pay for Virginia's share of building a Metrorail link between West Falls Church, Tysons Corner, Reston-Herndon, Dulles International Airport and Loudoun County.
An anti-rail group, Notollincrease.com, said it plans to boycott the toll road today and once a week thereafter to protest the toll increase. The group said Metro won't alleviate the congestion in the corridor.
THE DISTRICT
Man Charged in NW Road Rage Incident
D.C. police charged a 23-year-old man yesterday in connection with a road rage attack during rush hour Friday.
Hugo L. Campbell, whose last known address was in the 12000 block of Littleton Street in Silver Spring, turned himself in to authorities about 8:30 a.m. yesterday, said Sgt. Joe Gentile, a D.C. police spokesman. Campbell was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, an automobile, Gentile said.
The incident began when a woman was in an accident with the driver of a Honda Accord on 16th Street NW, police said. The woman was driving her 7-year-old son to school. Police said the Honda driver did not stop, so the woman followed the car to a parking lot of an apartment complex at Newton and 16th streets NW.
Police said it appears that the two motorists got out of their cars and began arguing. When the Honda driver got back into his car and tried to drive away, the woman got behind the car or on its trunk to block him. The motorist then backed over the woman, police said.
The woman was not identified because she is considered a witness. Gentile said she was admitted to the hospital in critical condition Friday.
Campbell was to be arraigned today in D.C. Superior Court.
