The District can’t tax the earnings of 500,000 nonresident workers, but there’s an effort afoot to toll them instead. Ward 8 D.C. Council Member Marion Barry on Tuesday proposed establishing a commission to study the idea of tollbooths at the city’s borders. Ward 5 Council Member Harry Thomas and at-large Council Member Kwame Brown co-introduced the legislation.

“I’m trying to find ways to get people to pay their fair share of travel on our streets, of getting police protection, of getting fire protection, creating potholes and other kinds of wear and tear on our streets,” Barry said.