I have no problem with them trying to collect legitimate toll fees. People will always try to cheat the system, this is just another example.
What irritates me is the way some of these toll roads are set up. My mother and I went to a suburb of Dallas last year to meet a cousin. I saw a sign saying the road I was approaching would take me to I 20, the one I needed, so I took that road. AFTER getting on this road, I started seeing toll road signs. NO advance warning at all, no sign saying I was getting on a toll road. No toll booth where we could simply give them our less than 2 bucks.
We were pretty pissed, if I had known it was a toll road I already had a route mapped out, no problem getting there without a toll road costing us extra. I don’t mind a toll road, if I have no choice, but to end up on one without knowing it then having no way to make my own decision on whether to take a toll road or not is infuriating. We finally paid the toll, but not without letting them know we were not happy about the deception.
As far as this article goes, if the toll road is marked as such and you use it, pay the damn toll. Same as people trying to find ways to use the high occupancy vehicle lanes when they don’t have the legal right to do so. I’ve seen news articles showing people with cardboard cutouts of people in the passenger seat. Not long ago one had a cardboard cutout of Trump...This is the same scenario, just trying to cheat the system. Fine the crap outta the bastards...
Oh, so the fuel taxes I paid, didn't pay for those lanes? Screw HOV lanes. Unless there's a special tag you pay for that goes to construct and maintain those lanes, they shouldn't be able to tell me, the one who paid for it with my fuel taxes, that I can't drive there.
On I-295 (a toll free highway) southbound in Maine, north of Portland, there is a road sigh for “BOSTON — NEW HAMPSHIRE” that, if you follow it, detours you via a dogleg onto I-95, the Maine Turnpike, which is a toll road, and generally more crowded as well as longer. I-295 joins I-95 south of Portland, you wind up going to the same place either way.
I listen to traffic reports approaching Portland from the north, and if 295 is tied up, I will take the detour, but it does strike me as sleazy.