Posted on 04/11/2015 10:06:44 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
...and 10% more of it will be down to a single lane for "construction".
Here is a good tip for city dwellers... Don't park next to a fire hydrant.
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.
They spend the trillions in highway funds and tolls on welfare programs over the past decades.
They need a new highway tax to replace the highway taxes they’ve diverted elsewhere.
And by law your gas taxes can only be used for highway improvements. So how has that worked out for you?
Gas taxation was provided to support highways. Instead it is disbursed for buses, rail lines, and other things. Then they come back to you and claim it wasn’t enough, and they need tolls to do the trick.
Yes, I’ve seen some of the toll roads. They keep those up to date meticulously so that the citizens will notice and think it’s a great idea.
How did we get by without those tolls in the past? We did. Our highways were great.
I’m not here to give you a hard time, but here you are actually praising these thieves, or at least their underhanded tactics.
Every time you pass a gas station, think about how many dollars the state is making off just the people sitting there when you go by. Then think about how much they make during the full day, and then 365 days per year. And then realize how many gas stations are just like that one in the state.
It’s mind boggling how much they make, and yet they can’t make due.
Yes they can.
I used to live in a small town about 20 miles outside the second largest city in the state. Traffic was horrendous as the main street was a small two lane with parking on both sides. The town was petitioned over and over to improve the main street and thus the traffic flow. They would always come back with if they did that it would be a disincentive for the public to use mass transit o they were going to leave things as they were.
Trouble was there was no mass transit in town and if you wanted to take a bus to the city 20 miles away you needed to drive 15 miles to get to the nearest stop.
Some people have a very strong aversion to change, progress, or even common sense. If you run into a city council filled with that type of people, your only alternative is to canvas your city and run the current city council out of town.
We had a traffic control manager of our city, who decided the only way to slow traffic down was to install bike lanes and reduce the roadway to one lane in both directions.
Never mind this was a busy street, and traffic easily backed up over a block during rush hours. One lane would have made it so the traffic was backed up a lot farther than that due to other blocked streets, a college, and a grade school within three blocks.
I went to the city council and told them all this. One of the council members had to travel on that street each morning and evening, and as soon as she heard what he was doing, she slammed the idea too.
He had to erase new lines and paint other ones on a newly surfaced street for several blocks for his incompetence.
I did not know that..
so how do they get away with that when traveling west, from OH into PA...where the fee was at one time when it opened, $1.50 it is now $6.80..and then you get on the PA. turnpike after a very short distance...
oh hell the are all crooks.
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