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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I already don’t use the turnpike where there are roughly parallel roads that are “free”. Maybe if they stopped charging a toll?


13 posted on 12/18/2010 4:20:06 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

I do not understand how US Interstates can charge tolls...they get the same funding all other interstate highways get. There is no other way to get across Ohio other than the turnpike, so every one is forced on to it. If you tried to cross the state on the north side in any other way it would probably take a day. Fuel taxes are supposed to pay for the roads, and everyone pays fuel taxes. I don’t understand why the eastern states have such a huge proliferation for toll roads (In fact I believe almost all of them were temporary (temporary 50 years ago). Western states (with the exception of money grubbing California and a wee bit in Texas) do not have toll roads, and our roads have to go over mountains and stuff, Ohio’s turnpike is 300 miles of perfectly flat road.


14 posted on 12/18/2010 5:11:03 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ...In the US the number is 54%)
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