While traveling home from Massachusetts on I-95 just before approaching the New Hampshire toll plaza in Hampton, N.H., I noticed a Hampton Beach side exit just before the plaza for a toll of 75 cents.

Then a few miles north, approaching the Maine Turnpike toll plaza in York there is no toll for the York Beach and Route 1 side exit just before the plaza.

If New Hampshire can charge 75 cents for a side exit for Hampton Beach, I would think the MTA should consider a 75 cent toll for the side exit to York Beach prior to the Maine toll plaza that many out-of-state tourists exit, and to also possibly avoid the toll at Exit 19 for Wells and Ogunquit.

This would also lead me to believe that many Wells Beach and Ogunquit tourists heading back home south may also avoid the toll by traveling Route 1 for the free I-95 points south access in York.

It would seem to me the MTA is missing an opportunity in York — of both north and southbound — potential side exit toll booths collecting tolls not currently collected.

That additional potential 75 cent toll (such as the Hampton Beach exit) presently not collected in York and frequented by many out-of-state tourists would certainly ease the burden of the proposed Turnpike rate increase for all Mainers along the 100-mile stretch of the Maine Turnpike who may not have free access to I-95, such as the residents of Lewiston and Auburn.

Jim Lynch, Auburn (Exit 75)