DIG DOWN TO REPAIR THE COUNTRY ROADS. The Transportationist picks up a Virginia proposal to turn a section of Interstate 95 into a toll road. The project description identifies shunpike routes, at least one of which is likely to be pounded to pieces by trucks should tolling go into effect. Other segments of Interstate 95 -- it's built in a thickly settled part of the country with few parallelling expressways -- are already toll roads. Virginia's proposal, however, appears to be a way of taxing interstate commerce. That's little different from Illinois doing so with its Chicago-centric tollways. If you're headed from Milwaukee to St. Louis or Indianapolis to Minneapolis you can avoid some or all of the toll roads, but if you're headed from Wisconsin to Indiana or Iowa to Michigan you're stuck.