Posted on 03/05/2018 6:39:48 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Move away.
It’ll change your life. :)
Oh but the 495 paid lanes were going to fix everything. Without more bridges, nothing will fix the problem.
Sure is. VA Dems increased tax revenue while providing ZERO solutions to a problem.
Privatize all interstates
use the money to eliminate the national debt
eliminate the federal gas tax
with no national debt we can fully fund social security without raising taxes
No, I live here. WE NEED MORE BRIDGES. It will fix the problem. We don’t need that to fix this problem.
Park and rides. The ones I drive by are, at most, 30% full.
The Left so loves pushing Mass Transit on us, and making it as hard as possible to drive by yourself. . .
How about “The effing taxpayers already pay for the roads via their tax bills”. WTH right does Virginia or any other state have double taxing a federal road, dammit?!
$40 tolls?! Good Lord. And I thought the $4.25 toll for single drivers to use the HOV lane here in Houston was highway robbery.
F’em...Glad I retired just before the EZ pass went into effect. Its all about Gov control and run by the northerners who have moved in and screwed up northern Va.
A number of big toll roads have been privatized for 75 or 99 year terms, with private companies setting and collecting tolls and responsible for the maintenance.
Road use taxes and gas taxes were not lowered though, despite the transfer of responsibility to private hands.
“In 2006, Mayor Daley leased out the Chicago Skyway for 99 years for $1.8 billion.”
‘On June 29, 2006, in what may serve as a “test case” for the privatization of other major highways in the United States, the state of Indiana received $3.8 billion from a foreign consortium made up of the Spanish construction firm Cintra and the Australian Macquarie Infrastructure Group, and in exchange the state ceded operation of the 157-mile (253 km) Indiana Toll Road for the next 75 years to these outside corporations. The consortium will collect all the tolls.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_highways_in_the_United_States
Glad I don’t live in that area anymore.
Do you really think that the entire interstate system will net the government $21 trillion dollars?
So, according to this statistic we are draining the swamp at the rate of 2,000 per day. That is over 1/2 million per year. A couple of years and it will be back to pre 9/11 levels [when the Bush Cheney crony capitalism lead to rapid inflation of the idiocracy in DC]. Keep up the good work.
Exactly. Toll roads might be nice in theory—you pay for what you use—but in practice it is just another government racket.
I remember when they were planning the I-540 outer beltline in Raleigh. It was going to be a desparately-needed route for commutes between North Raleigh and the southern Wake County suburbs and Research Triangle Park.
As soon as the northern part was built and the North Raleigh residents got their free route, they decided that the southern Wake County residents who had dutifully been paying their taxes could only have their part built if it was a toll road.
And that part of the road is N.C. 540, because you cannot give a toll road an interstate designation without federal permission.
The real problem is there are only 2 lanes each way on I-66 in Arlington County.
Back approx. 1960 when the highway was being built, Arlington refused to allow 6 lanes on I-66, which is why the overall highway footprint doesn’t change at the Fairfax line but the lanes go from 3 to 2 each way. When I learned about this, the only thing that astonished me was that Arlington County has been stupid for longer than I thought.
Meanwhile, I’m all for the Hotlanes — saved my butt when I was late for a meeting out at Tysons one Friday afternoon: was very worth the fee.
That said, HOV lanes suck. Change ‘em all to tolls and be done with the special privileges for hybrids and extra passengers.
I am very suspect of them claiming that these tolls have not overloaded other streets that people are using as alternatives.
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