“If the tolls were like $4 we wouldn't be standing here. None of us knew the tolls were going to be this high, nobody foresaw this happening,” Virginia State Senator Chap Petersen said. “Frankly this was an issue we had resolved in 2016, we had a very specific deal with the governor that we were going to make improvements and once those improvements were made, particularly inside the beltway. We were going to go forward with the tolling and the fact this got out of sequence, maybe we should have known better, but the fact is here we are.”