Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Gov’t has have VERY poor track record regarding tolls ever paying off any road construction, or at least going away.
Lol.. Are they keeping gas taxes too? People are crazy. Toll roads... How many times will you pay for the same patch of asphalt.
Virginia has already done this on I495 and I95 from the Maryland border south.
What bothers me is the corruption in the private partnership. Slick Eddie Rendell tried this with I80 when he was Pennsylvania governor.
How about cutting the size of the federal government by say, 50%?
We have got to be the most gullible people on the planet.
We pay something like 65 cents per gallon gas taxes these days.
Folks, that is enough to build highways and keep them up.
Why are we setting it up so it will cost us hundreds of dollars to drive cross country, in tolls?
In Orlando they are building toll roads down the center of I-4 where Congressman John Mica said for years that would never happen. Then one day, out of the blue, he changed his mind, and presto, the interstate highway is a toll road!
Oh, and the cost to use the toll portion of the road is based on how much traffic there is. If traffic is heavy it will cost more.
Where is all the money from stupid lotteries going? Where are the gas taxes going?
Amazingly, Mica was promptly kicked out of Congress by the voters.
Highways never pay for themselves.
Citizens do, and now private enterprises make a profit off it too.
Is there anyone here who thinks that lowers the cost?
Ha. Boy, do I LOATHE ‘going home’. $20+ just to see the other side of the family North of Philly for the 90min. commute up I95?? Uh, no. I’ll take the Sunday-lazy-drive up old Hwy1 and skip the tolls. Better scenery and just about the same amount of time as I don’t have the FassPass (too easy to ‘forgot’ and get a nice bill when you return from the visit.
Jax, FL been putting in HOV and expanding the bypass. As the post suggests, seems to have made traffic WORSE, not better ([never ending] construction, pattern shifts).
MD, no matter the depth of your pockets, govt will demand as much lint as it can get.
As the greater NYC area learned from Robert Moses....build more roads/lanes and they will fill up.
Good roads are only for the rich. Eventually there will be 6 lanes of toll toad and the gravel shoulder for the tax payers.
It’s called peon pavement.
Their lack of planning IS our emergency.
Since the public PAYS FOR the construction of the roads, how then do they have to pay again for them in the form of tolls?
special toll lanes are primarily for government workers with government issued vehicles driving for free and not getting caught up in the gridlock which they have created.
total total bs.
A toll road and higher gas taxes. The road will be like those bridges. Never paid for and will fall into disrepair with politicians calling for “temporary” tax hikes to pay for the repairs. Repeat and repeat.