Posted on 01/05/2005 3:10:55 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
$30 per hour to hold a sign up, when a college kid would do it for $6.
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Even worse, in KenneTaxaChusetts, (that's "MA" for those of you fortunate enough to never have lived there) the cops union forces replacement of that $30 flag-waver with a $55 State Trooper on overtime, with his $$$$$$ souped-up, electronics-loaded patrol car idling -- with its flashing lights replacing the flag. (And that includes supervisors' cars -- with bigger "antenna farms" than the President's limo...)
All the uniformed (college degreed) $$$$Trooper does is stand around, look dumb, and collect overtime -- he/she doesn't even hold a flag.
As a result, the highest paid public servants in MA are -- MA State Troopers!
If not, you ain't got a dawg in this fight!
"If not, you ain't got a dawg in this fight!"
One other comment - even if he doesn't come around, at least he'll keep a close eye on TX, and thus be available to warn others, after the $hit hits the fan.
I'm glad you like toll roads, I implore you to move to Austin and pay the fees. I've seen some estimates that commuters will be paying $2000 more a year to get to their jobs. I've also seen estimates that adding just a few pennies more to our taxes would bring in the same revenue without this egregious misuse of our money.
Jen
Cintra now charges 13 to 14 cents (Canadian) per kilometer for the road they own near Toronto. That comes out to about 17 cents US per mile.
http://www.407etr.com/tolls/tolls.asp
HANG ON TO YOUR WALLET Texans!!!
i don't understand why they don't use barcode technology for billing cars.
instead, they create these huge bureaucracies that was money. paying someone to sit in a toll booth is labor intensive and stupid.
they'll unionize and vote democrat.
was = waste.
i'm gonk to bed.
One last comment,
The rates that I quoted for Cintra in Canada assume that you have a transponder. Without the transponder it comes out to about 21 US cents per mile.
the dozen or so 4-tier interchanges that they're building in austin are just plain ugly and destructive. take the one at i-35 and louis henna. who will wanna shop at kinko's or eat at mcduck's?
they will destroy the neighborhoods that they tower over, just like the ones at i-35 and 183. the stretch from 35 to metric on 183 is a high crime, slum.
Oh no! We are going hi-tech here! No tool booths, they will have some device to bill for road use. You will get a couple of free passes if you are unfamiliar with the area, tourist or new to the area, after that the bill will be in the mail.
Big Brother, he is here, alive and well in Austin TX. BTW, a toll road is never EVER paid for, and the fee never goes away, it might rise but it surely won't go down.
HMM, now that I think about it, what better place to have this happen than in the ultra blue zone known as liberal heaven, Austin TX!
I'm glad we live on the outskirts, maybe I will consider a move to Waco or Temple.
Jen
Have you seen what they are building at 620 and 183? I think I should set up a camera and wait for someone to come flying off that lovely interchange when it is finished. It is bound to happen.
They will kill our neighborhoods and stores.
you're sure no toll booths, huh?
last summer i went around the east side of denver. it was 4 or 5 toll booths, and $12.00.
$12.00 seemed like alot to avoid the traffic on i-25.
in either case, the 4-tier interchanges, whether they're in denver, phoenix, los angeles, las vegas, or austin...etc are
oppressive.
yeah, i've seen it.
it sux.
i was telling a friend the other day that everything from cedar park to georgetown will be bulldozed in a couple of years.
as i said, i think the 4-tier interchanges are oppressive.
there must be an alternative that would be more human.
When did the speed limit change for thinly populated counties? I remember seeing an article about proposed legislation, but I haven't been more than 50 miles west of I-35 since 2001 so I've never seen a higher speed limit than 70 in Texas.
Where would the state get the right of way to add two lanes in each direction to I-35? The right of way currently is narrower than most newer Interstate highways that have two lanes each direction separated by a grass median. The grass median separating north and south bound traffic between Austin and Hillsborough is about half the width of other Texas Interstate highways. That's why the state built concrete crash barriers between those lanes in the last five years. The frontage roads adjacent to I-35 are also closer than more modern frontage roads. There is no place to to put more than one additional lane in each direction using the current right of way unless elevated lanes were built. You could build lots more lanes in a brand new right of way for what it would cost to build an elevated highway from San Antonio to Denton.
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