U.S. taxpayers provide the funding to build our road systems. This funding is then used for the road construction of toll roads. Foreign companies make sweet heart deals with states to win the contracts and collect the tolls for decades. Privatization of taxpayer funded roads that provide revenue for foreign companies is in itself problematic and in some ways supportive of globalism and the annexing of our resources. The political and corporate class have no problem doing this to us.
The interesting thing is will people use toll roads just because you build them? Here in Texas, many newly built toll roads are not being used, and the traffic is packing in even worse than before the toll roads were built. This desire to tax travel on taxpayer built roads may not work out the way the people doing this are thinking. Just like car pool lanes and other attempts to control social behavior, toll roads may in the end become failures.
“This desire to tax travel on taxpayer built roads may not work out the way the people doing this are thinking. Just like car pool lanes and other attempts to control social behavior, toll roads may in the end become failures.”
Several decades ago a large truck plowed through a small town, killing a bunch of innocent people. It wound up that the driver was not in a hurry (an independent) so he took the side highway to avoid the huge toll increase on the Ohio Turnpike. They actually rolled back the tolls somewhat because of it.
Eventually they will simply toll cars the moment they leave their driveway. Newer cars today probably have that capability and older cars will simply be fitted with transponders (and yes, they will watch for cars that are ‘not complying’). It is a scary thing when government knows every movement of yours.