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Posted on 09/13/2021 8:51:00 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
PING!
That’s how it starts.
Put the frog in the water and slowly turn the heat up until he’s boiling and doesn’t even know to jump out.
I-4, oh there were those the days when I worked for the Mouse, it was always congested.
I remember when I went to Orlando as a kid during the 70s I-4 was only two lanes each carriageway. When I have been back there recently it quite an adventure to make it through. The road is one big accident site.
Now it's something like $9 to drive the Mass Pike from the NY border into Boston for even a regular car.
A few years back, they removed the tollbooths and installed toll "gantries" which are banks of mounted cameras that can scan your license plate even if you are going 120 m.p.h.
Now the tolls just creep higher and higher because people are just flying under the gantries without a care in the world, with no clue how much the tolls are adding up to be.
Here's a little known fact. Law enforcement can provide the Mass Pike (managed by Raytheon) a list of license plate numbers and the state police will receive an email whenever one of those plates passes through a gantry and can dispatch a patrol car to come get you. So if you have any unpaid tickets or other warrants, do not use the Mass Pike!
Tolls on Interstate highway in Florida is news to me.
Live north of Tampa and always thought that I-75, 275, 95, and I-4 would always be toll free.
Thank you mouse — NOT
The privately owned toll roads in France helped to ignite the Yellow Vests protests in 2018.
I had to drive a trailer through the s hole of San Fransicko. Cost me over 100 bucks just to cross a few bridges.
When I was driving on I-4, it wasn’t bad until Orlando. That was from Tampa to Orlando.
I4 is still congested. I don’t care what time of day or night.. craziness.
At one time, some years ago, I commuted between the East coast and the East side of Orlando. Wasn’t bad but I exited at the greenway.
Hi.
Between you and me, if you ain’t movin on I-4 at 80 mph from Tampa to the mouse ears, get off the Interstate and take US 92.
Saves everyone hassle.
5.56mm
Bait and switch...
“Policy” when .gov does it...
Consumer fraud when .com does it.
Fortunately, they’re only tolling the four new lanes. Federal law wouldn’t allow them to toll the existing six lanes as well.
In those days “quarter tossing” should have been part of driver ed...
;-)
It has been a few years since I’ve been to Florida. We often took the Sun Coast highway(589) to Brooksville, Fl from Tampa. The toll road had started removing some of the toll plazas during the upgrade. Long term snowbirds had to buy transponders or pay online. If one was down there for a month or so a bill would show up at your home address. Florida didn’t intentionally stick it to out of staters for not having a transponder.
I feel the same way about I-75. Besides 41 and 301, there are plenty of other back roads. I use them myself when I’m in no particular hurry, or yet another accident has turned things into a parking lot.
I remember when they said once the East-West toll was paid off, they would remove the tolls...
That never happened..
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