Turner Turnpike. Was supposed to pay off and become a free road in 1954. How’s that working out?
Blame the voters of Oklahoma, who voted a long time ago to continue the tolls to create a system tolling regime for the entire Oklahoma Turnpike system.
Unlike the Illinois Tollway, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and so on, there was an actual vote that approved continuing the tolls.
Well, if the highway projects and highway expansion “did not happen” ... and instead ... just “nothing” happened — then there would have been an end to the ‘funding’.
BUT ... as long as we do more and better roads ... there is going to be a continued funding of them.
I guess it depends on whether you want nothing more to be done ... or ‘more to be done’.
Of course ... no one really “has to” drive on those roads, if they don’t want to.
I guess we could make it so that EVERYONE pays for it, or make it so that the drivers on that section of road pay for part of it. It seems more equitable for the drivers on that section of road to be the ones who pay for part of it.