Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Tax, tax, tax ... taxation without representation, seem like something that might start a revolution. And before you jump, we are taxed and yet have no true representation in DC, just politicians looking to get re-elected.
Adding toll lanes on already congested freeways is supposed to improve traffic, how?
I-270 needs more lanes, not more congestion due to tolls.
I’m so glad the morons and economic illiterates of the district re-elected him instead of Dan Bongino. What a great job.
Perhaps Delaney should wait and see how the toll express lanes on I-95 that opened less than a week ago fare first. It’s part of my commute and hardly anyone is using it. Today, I could see two cars in a half mile stretch and one was a cop who rides for free.
I think the second week of January is the first real opportunity to see how many people believe $1.75 is a good cost to save a few minutes.
Hough is NOT a (D), he's an (R).
Toll roads/lanes? What are gas and highway taxes for?
Yes, they need more toll money to rob for the welfare state.
Troll roads, the gift that keeps on giving to the politically connected. Chicago was supposed to turn their troll roads into freeways as soon as the bonds were paid off. Instead they bonded again and again and kept raising the tolls to pay off the larger and larger bonds; and all the payroll.
Given the massive payroll of troll roads, many of these jobs for doing nothing; it is the most expensive way to build a road.
Why do I add the “r” in troll? Because these roads traditionally had people sitting under what could look like a bridge demanding money to let people pass.
Troll roads, the gift that keeps on giving to the politically connected. Chicago was supposed to turn their troll roads into freeways as soon as the bonds were paid off. Instead they bonded again and again and kept raising the tolls to pay off the larger and larger bonds; and all the payroll.
Given the massive payroll of troll roads, many of these jobs for doing nothing; it is the most expensive way to build a road.
Why do I add the “r” in troll? Because these roads traditionally had people sitting under what could look like a bridge demanding money to let people pass.
Never heard of I-270.
Here in Houston there was some kind of dispute between the county and state when it came to tolling our highways, and when the dust cleared, the county (I believe), changed the configuration of the US-290 freeway (very, very, crowded) expansion from being something like 8 free lanes and 4 toll lanes to 10 free lanes and 1 reversible carpool/toll lane (prior to the widening it was 6 free lanes and 1 reversible carpool/toll lane. A MAJOR victory for freedom.
Believe it or not, we have a very efficient commuter bus system in the Houston area, so keeping the reversible lanes is a good thing...it’s just that the big shots are ashamed of our commuter buses, because it’s not a train.
One other thing that we actually do right. At this point, whenever we widen a freeway, we do it as a continuous surface, from one shoulder to the other right across the center, so you can be halfway through (as in US290), or even finished, with an expansion and then change the configuration - simply by moving dividers and re-striping. Someone at TXDOT has some brains, for once.