howie list ping: free the pike! (with NO exceptions though)
I’ll believe it when I see it.....and, unfortunately, I only take the Pike from Cambridge to Rte 128...or Cambridge to I-84...or Cambridge to the NY border.
So, what he’s saying is that ElectricStrawberry will not only be paying all the tolls on the Pike...but they will be going up.
Great...
Grew up in that area and there were tolls for as long as I go back and that’s a while. I remember when the Mass Pike “extension” was put in to extend it into downtown Boston.
Robert Moses of NY pioneered the use of tolls as a political/financial empire. When he established, I think it was the port authority, he kept all the dimes and quarters and was beholden to no one. I’m sure others have trod in his footsteps - except it ain’t dimes and quarters anymore!
Note, by law all toll roads were suppose to be free. But thanks to some rino slipping, a clause into the highway bill about demonstration projects. You have the current mess, many think it was the dirt bag governor of Indiana that did it, he sold the state highway as soon as he could and attempted to sell other road until he got a large hunk of the republicans voted out of office.
I frequently drive from Hartford to Albany via the Mass Pike. There is presently no charge for the 90 minute portion in Massachussetts.
However, there is a person handing out the toll tickets on the entry end and a person collecting the tickets on the exit end of the toll road. Reportedly, their annual salaries are as high as $80K.
This is how Massachussetts “creates” jobs.
OMG! WHAT? Did hell freeze over and I missed it?????? LOL!
ping
Clearly Deval got his telephone call from Obama. Look for a moving van in front of Deval’s house.
The governor drops the tolls, the citizens love him, and he flies off to D.C. The Mass pols are left with a drop in revenue and no way to make it up without re-instating the tolls. Brilliant.
Not that I like tolls, don’t get me wrong...but the East/West travelers have been paying through the nose for decades and the North/South travelers get a pass. The North/South route through Boston is most of the big dig and these commuters never forked over any dough.
From exit 1 to exit 6 the truck drivers still have to pay the tolls now- and they’re hefty. I’m surprised they aren’t talking about keeping the RT 91 and RT 495 tolls [just for the trucks]those are big corridors.