CTE evening toll

the trolls have set up another one again! damn! "smooth flowing as evening toll kicks in on CTE" (ST 2nd aug 05 headlines) i really dun know.. after so many public education and forums on why road pricing was introduced... i still dun understand... not to say i dun know what is road pricing... i still dun know why it exist! after so many yrs since it was introduced, has anyone here (beside LTA i guess) really benefit from it? i mean when you pay...u expect something back but all we know is that there are now more jams...traffic are now more unpredictable... what is the reason of having a toll at CTE (not to mention other places) diverting traffic will just cause other roads to jam... and then wat? put more toll gates on other roads? with all these traffic diversion... no wader nowadays people arrived either arrived work too early or too late...before the introduction of ERP... at least we know where to avoid during peak hours... now traffic have become so much more unpredictable... why not just tell us '... we need the money to improve our roads... pls pay' as a singaporean it will be more simple to swallow... duh! :P