[DoughtyOne]

Does anyone know when the tolls to build the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge paid off the loans taken out to build the bridge?

It was in the 1970s. The tolls are still being charge today, some 40 year later.

The closest thing to immortality on the face of God’s green earth, is government taxation, levies, and tolls.

When someone tells you they need to charge you a new toll, just try to use this rule of thumb.

How did this get paid for during my parents and grandparents life? Why can’t it be paid for that way now? What has changed?

Folks, do we really want to pay hundreds of dollars to drive coast to coast on toll roads? Our parents didn’t have to. Why should we?

We are way to easy when it comes to new taxation.

[Paladin2]

Michigan’s Big Mac Bridge financing is similar.

[haircutter]

The Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls have become totally ridiculous and very expensive,, A trip from Somerset, PA to York, PA..a couple hundred miles now cost almost 20.00 one way...

Made a trip from Somerset PA. area to the Ohio turnpike line this week, cost was $8.60 then you travel some 32 miles for ‘FREE’ lol to get on the OH. turnpike, which is also ridiculous tolls, on the return trip to PA. you pay a fee for that so called ‘FREE’ trip of $6.80 for 32 miles...they make up for the so called free ride on your ride to Ohio...

Then you get on turnpike and pay another $8.60 to get to Somerset area...actually get off at Donegal area... all in all a round trip is getting to cost almost $35.00 to go see hubby Doctor at Cleveland Clinic. a trip of 220 miles one way...

I travel often from PA. to Atlanta GA. on Interstates...the only state I pay a toll is in West Virginia..$2.40 but it will go up ridiculous too. I feel certain after reading this article...

THANK YOU HUSSEIN OBAMA FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA

[Gaffer]

Think back to Grimm et al......today’s tolls are largely an updated version of the Ogre/Troll under the bridge.

[hinckley buzzard]

We have a similar situation in Ohio. The road was financed with bonds, to be repaid out of tolls. The original construction bonds have long since been retired, while the tolls remain. Meanwhile, the Ohio Turnpike is the best maintained and updated stretch of interstate in the state. That all costs money and it has to be gotten somewhere.

The continuation of tolls has been generally accepted for this reason, and by law the revenues can only be used for highway repair maintenance and improvement.