Foreign Control of U.S. Interstates Encouraged By Feds

American Chronicle ^ | June 29, 2006 | Diane M. Grassi

[mtbopfuyn]

$10 is too much. How much gray matter is used sitting in a booth all day?

[Alberta's Child]

You've got to be kidding me.

There's no such thing as "free" parking, and the term "freeway" has nothing to do with tolls. "Freeway" is simply a reference to a limited-access roadway with no traffic control devices (traffic signals or stop signs) that interrupt the flow of traffic.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

What have the Founders to do with this thread? This is about selling-off America, one part at a time, as part of CFR's globalistic creep.

BTW, the first toll road was the PA Turnpike.

[Young Scholar]

Perhaps it's because "homeland security" refers to securing our country itself against threats, while national security can include a wide range of activities that involve maintaining the US's strategic position in the world.

[A. Pole]

I predict that withing a couple of years, most of the toll collectors will be those who are just doing jobs "American don't want to do," and for a lot less than what is being paid today.

Think about the gasoline saved when the guest worker toll collectors will be commuting to their work on foot.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

You're blind to reality.

http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2005/july05/05-07-13.html

[A. Pole]

$20/hour to collect tolls? Are you calling that a good thing? Only a ridiculous government union could arrange that kind of deal.

This $20/hour is phony, the actual pay is less. So when you pay your toll you can be happy to know that dumb and lowly collector is not being overpaid.

[Live and let live conservative]

The skill set required for a toll collector is about the same as the skill set for a cashier at Wal-Mart or Safeway. So any toll collector who is paid more than a grocery store cashier is basically overpaid. The fact that the toll collector is part of a government racket doesn't change this.

I disagree, the skill set for a cashier who is dealing with thousands of products at different prices is not the same as someone doling out change for a buck at one price.

$10 an hour for handing drivers a quarter is a gift as far as I'm concerned. It seems that bill changing machines would pay for themselves in a matter of a month or two and they couldn't possibly be slower than the folks working the toll booths in and around Dallas.

[A. Pole]

$20/hour to collect tolls? Are you calling that a good thing? Only a ridiculous government union could arrange that kind of deal.

BTW, I hope that Young Scholars like you will not be paid more than $7/per hour. Never in their life!

[processing please hold]

I wonder where all the Bushbots are when crap like this rears it's head.

It's gets harder and harder for them to defend him and keep a straight face while doing it.

[A. Pole]

$10 is too much. How much gray matter is used sitting in a booth all day?

How much is enough? $5?

[Young Scholar]

So what was the point of post #2, then?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Yes. You're catching on.

[processing please hold]

This is one more step in the globalization and balkanization of America, the loss of national soverignty, the merging with Canada and mexico. It has nothing to do with "funny little foreign people", and has everything to do with a metered step-by-step process of turning America from a 'First World Melting Pot' into a 'Third World Chamber Pot'.

Needed to be in bold.

[diogenes ghost]

Going Westbound from Pa to IL, a short hop into MI on 23/94 will save a trucker a bunch of tollway heartache.

[A. Pole]

So what was the point of post #2, then?

To point to the mindset.

[Young Scholar]

I'm making $17/hour this summer (before my senior year).

[Calpernia]

Before:

After:

If you ever plan to motor west:

Travel my way, the highway that's the best.

Get your kicks on Route 66!

It winds from Chicago to L.A.,

More than 2,000 miles all the way,

Get your kicks on Route 66 !

Now you go thru St. Looey...Joplin, Missouri!

And Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty.

You'll see Amarillo...Gallup, New Mexico.

Flagstaff, Arizona: don't forget Winona,

Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino.

Won't you..get hip to this timely tip:

when you..make that California trip.

Get your kicks on Route 66!

[Hardastarboard]

the Secretary of the Department of Transportation, Norman Mineta

Here's a big part of the problem, now resolved.

[Doohickey]

One thing not mentioned in the article the number of small hotel, gas station and restaurant owners that went under because the Interstate highway system put out of business because the Interstates allowed people to travel farther, faster and/or avoid many small towns. But alas, we survived.

This situation also validates the rule that when a resource is given away for free, demand will swell to consume all available supply. It doesn't really matter how many traffic lanes we put into congested areas; more cars and trucks will show up to clog those up to.

I'm in favor of tolls, as long as there is a decrease in fuel or other taxes to go with it. If I don't feel like paying a toll, I can always take a U.S. highway to get where I'm going (and maybe actually see a little bit of America in the bargain).

My final comment is a question: Why are there no American companies that are willing to keep and maintain toll roads?