Toll policy in the offing?

THE government is learnt to have approved a toll policy for collecting tolls from vehicles using different highways, roads and bridges of the country. This policy claims to modernise toll collection and make it transparent.  But the elaborate description of how the authority will charge different types of vehicles for highways, roads and bridges divided into a number of categories falling under various slabs of 'base toll' sounds quite messy and confusing. One wonders what will be left of its transparency, if the toll policy is inherently so confusing.
It appears, the whole thrust of the  policy is to widen its coverage as much as possible so as to bring every type of vehicle including rickshaws, cycles and other types of manually-driven vehicles, even those owned and operated by small traders  and self-employed poor people, under the toll net.
In all, the entire exercise looks like a management nightmare.   
The government needs to ensure that the toll policy, when put into effect, does not prove to be a burden for the low-income section of the people.
Given the complex nature of the toll collection policy as outlined, there is every reason to believe that it may be susceptible to abuse. Needless to say, it is through loopholes that corruption and then the floodgate of political rent-seeking is opened up. The government needs to make the toll collection regime foolproof to avoid turning it into a tool of extortion.  
So, if the entire focus of the policy is to streamline the system of toll collection, the government must allay any misgivings arising out of the complicacies surrounding the policy through an elaborate public statement.