Uh, just NO.
Wisconsin’s highways are seriously underfunded. …Or maybe they are overfunded and the funds that ought to have been there were absconded by an avaricious public sector bent on subsidizing “refugees” or suchlike.
question — there are gas taxes collected every time we get gas. What is this money being spent on, if not road maintenance as intended???
If there are shortfalls, perhaps we could discuss raising gas taxes, if we really need more dedicated money for road maintenance.
But it seems out of bounds to me, to convert roads to toll roads, to get an additional source of revenue, when we already theoretically have that dedicated revenue in the form of gasoline and diesel fuel taxes.
“Federal law still bans most forms of Interstate tolling.”
I never heard of that. Driving between DC/NY, one encounters tolls in every state, MD, DE, NJ, NY... the toll for bridges/tunnels between NYC/NJ is heavy (ask any commuter). Of course, those tunnels and bridges, except possibly one, preceded the interstate highway system, but I believe were incorporated into it. Maybe because of that they got an exception on tolling?
I always wondered why in driving down I95, say from NY to FL, there are tolls in all the states north of DC, but none south of DC. VA is the first state on that drive that one encounters that doesn’t have tolls on the interstate.
Oh my gosh. Do the road builders ever stop their insatiable quest for tax money? NO WAY!
Sure, set up toll roads and track drivers and never, ever stop bilking the public. Just look at loser Illinois. Their roads suck and their toll roads were supposed to be temporary, now it’s just an ongoing state/union scam.
Go away!
Banning the word “underfunded” needs to be moved-up on our To Do List.
“underfunded”?
Where the hell is all the money that was supposed to go to them?
I drive from NY to Ohio every week- as soon as I hit NY it’s “Welcome to NY, that’ll be $3.15 please” (each way)
Nothing in PA, nothing in Ohio... and their roads are fine.
I worked at a spot where I could see a tool booth out the window once. After the morning rush, there were no cars. So a quick calculation showed they were having a toll booth there for the purpose of paying a toll-taker...
THIS IS A LOSS OF WEALTH.
Jim Doyle gave at least a billion dollars of highway money to the schools.
It would be great if many of the new roads were privately funded. Then charge tolls for profit. No problem with that.
Tollroads ... 15 minutes of highway spped, interrupted by 30 minutes in line to toss coins in a bucket, or longer if you did not have the correct change, day or night, good weather or crap.
There goes your gas mileage.
There goes your calculated time of travel to granny’s house
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First time a snowflake has to open their window in a driving winter snow, or a summer’s not-quite-tropical-storm battering the area, they will freak out like a Southern Californian when the rain comes after washing and waxing the car.
Now, in this day of idiocy on the roads, you get somebody who doesn’t understand the language, holding up the line.
Or .... the automatic toll machine malfunctions, and the gate does not raise?