GMAT Verbal

Which of the following, if true, would provide the authority with the strongest counter to the objection that its plan is unfair?

• A.

  Even with the proposed toll increase, the average bridge toll in the tristate region would remain less than the tolls charged in neighboring states.

• B.

  Any attempt to finance the improvements by raising rail fares would result in a decrease in ridership and so would be self-defeating.

• C.

  Automobile commuters benefit from well maintained bridges, and in the tristate region bridge maintenance is funded out of general income tax revenues to which both automobile and rail commuters contribute.

• D.

  The roads along the route served by the rail line are highly congested and drivers benefit when commuters are diverted from congested roadways to mass transit.

• E.

  The only alternative way of funding the proposed improvements now being considered is through a regional income tax surcharge, which would affect automobile commuters and rail commuters alike.