Rat calls those against Tolls/milage tax "Morons"

https://www.rep-am.com ^ | March 28, 2019 | surrounded_too

[Gay State Conservative]

I remember being with my dad when we drove through Nevada to get to Idaho. The speed limit was “reasonable and proper”, ie. no speed limit at all. 100mph was pretty much the average speed out of the few towns.

A friend of mine's father was an actual rocket scientist (MIT grad) who worked for a major DoD contractor (missile design) in the 50's/60's.

As a result he spent a lot of time in Nevada despite living in the Northeast. He told stories of driving at outrageous speeds while there.

[the_daug]

Aresimowicz calls anti-tolling resolutions by municpalities ‘absurd,’ ‘moronic’

[Impala64ssa]

I remember when they took the tool booths off the 520 floating bridge in Seattle because it was paid for. Can you imagine, in your wildest dreams, modern politicians doing that?
I got a collection of old road maps. One of them of the N.Y. Thruway from 1957. In it, a message from Gov. Harriman saying that when the bonds are paid off in 1996 the tolls will be removed. Well he promised!!

[Lisbon1940]

Rat wants to pave the whole state. Not going to be popular among the rest of the rats.

[ScottinVA]

This mileage tax... none of its proponents seem to want to address what happens when those motorists travel to other states... they’ll be paying the other states’ fuel taxes AND will still pay the mileage tax. Those who support that kind of double taxes are far more moronic than ANYONE.

[Bonemaker]

Chicago area and way beyond in criminalannoy is shot through with tolls. Since 1956 and still going strong with much higher tolls...decades after original bonds were paid off. Small price to pay for living in such a lovely state.

[hanamizu]

He told stories of driving at outrageous speeds while there.

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One time we drove in my dad’s 1951 Jaguar XK-120. Average speed through Nevada maybe 110 and at times over 120. When we slowed down to 60 to go through highway construction/maintenance it felt like 20. But even at high speed it was uncomfortably hot. (But it’s a dry heat).

[Go Gordon]

CT removed the tollbooths in the early 1980’s because, after wages and expenses, the tolls weren’t actually bringing in that much money.

And they caused massive traffic jams and they experienced a handful of fiery crashes that killed people

[Sergio]

Excellent explanation.

[Gasshog]

Say Kentuckie , why would yall need to come on Indiana Side anyhow?

I don’t go to Looieville unless I havta see a doctor or something.

An yeah screw that toll bridge.

[Texicanus]

Auto air conditioning was that foreign to us. Of course, we were from an area that it wasn’t really all that required

That was during an era of transition in Texas. Texans had low taxes, good jobs, and had the desire for the finer things' like 'air conditioning' in our cars and homes. As a kid growing up in Texas, I remember the "smell of warm asphalt" in the wind as Dad sped down the single lane highways at 55 mph with all the windows rolled down in our new 1949 Ford. When we passed through a refinery town or the many fields which flared off their excess gas, we experienced a cheap thrill of sorts.

I can only imagine how a California progressive environmentalist of today would react to our living conditions back then.

[cuban leaf]

We only use it to go to see the grandkids in Chicago. And if possible we will use the 2nd ave bridge.

[Rashputin]

What’s a “working poor”

The poor saps who are barely able to afford highly taxed gasoline in whatever old vehicle they can already barely afford to keep in decent shape with safe tires to get their butt to work every day.

The same people who are going to be slapped in the face with the smelly dead fish of highway tolls by their "public servants" who enjoy high wages, gold plated benefits, lavish retirement benefits, government owned or subsidized rides, and insist that they must have tolls on highways in order to look out for the "welfare of the people" after having lied about using the tax on gasoline only to keep the highways in decent shape.

You can recognize "working poor" by the ravenous leeches of bloated government hanging on their necks.

[Rashputin]

I guess it's strange, but you know what I miss?

I miss the non-radial tires on tractor trailers singing as they go down the highway.

[Pajamajan]

Shut up and do what you’re told peasants. Your “betters” have called for you to give them more money.

[grania]

Add to that....(1)It'll make trips to CT casinos less desirable. (2) even more people will choose two-lane highways that wind their way through still-livable CT towns. It'll cause their destruction, too. Think about it. A whole lot of towns will get just like Derby, with Rt34. (3) All that incoming cash will mean that pols will have bought another few years of not addressing issues of corruption and bad budgeting.

I'm thinking next trip east after tolls are in place: Rt 80 across PA, cut up north to the MA Turnpike, which is much better maintained than CT roads and can be avoided if one wants a scenic route.

[Gasshog]

I see.

My comment was a little tongue in cheek.

Believe it or not there are still folks in Northern Kentucky that do not go north of the Ohio, and never will.

Granted they are generally also the ones that will never see a dentist either....

[Texicanus]

Bias-ply tires - I remember them well. I remember “the caucuses of retreads” which littered the “hotter than hell” roadways in the late afternoons. (And the sound of a blowout, the pitter patter of rubber beating against the wheel well, and the sound of rubber hitting the road in the distance)

Thanks for the memories and have a great day.

[cuban leaf]

HAHAHA! I live in south central KY (but work in Louisville) and totally get that!. I have neighbors that have never been as far away as Lexington (an hour and a half away) and some that have never been out of the county.

And yeah, the ones that take meth really COULD use a dentist.

BTW, I just went to my small town dentist to get a crown earlier this week. In one visit:

- Ground down the old tooth to take a crown.
- Used a CAD enabled computer to scan my teeth around the tooth, creating a 3D model on the computer screen.
- The program then allowed the hygienist to manipulate the “teeth in three dimensions to cut away un-needed material (gums).
- The program then displayed a 3D model of the proposed crown, allowing the operator to “shave off” marked excess material.
- The operator completed this and hit send.

That’s where CAM comes in.

In a room next door a CAD controlled machine used a small tooth blank and ground out a perfect crown. I watched it and even video recorded it. It was like something out of Star Trek.

In about 15 minutes it was done.

They dropped the tooth in position, made a couple of quick adjustments, and glued it in place. They then trimmed off the excess glue and asked me how it felt. It felt perfect and they sent me on my way.

We live in the future - even in rural Kentucky.

BTW, they call it a tooth brush because the inventor was from Kentucky. Otherwise it would be called a teeth brush. :)

[Gasshog]

Lol.

Your neighbors would need nitrous to face the ordeal you described, assuming they could be dragged inside.