"It hands over vital public-transportation corridors to private monopolies. That is totally unacceptable," said Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, the vice chairman of the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee. "The fatal flaw with [private] toll roads is that the owners require the state to either agree not to expand the adjacent highways, or to reimburse them if the state does expand the state highways. If we can't expand the public highway system that the public has bought and paid for without paying tribute to a private interest, we shouldn't do it."
McClintock Ping!
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they no sooner complete a job on one part of a freeway that they start another one in the same place. LOL
two steps forward, three steps backward
unrelated, I just wish they would ban cell phone use while driving...it's gotten to the point that every time I drive I see morons on cell phones wavering in and out of lanes or even worse cutting in front of others. It's nothing short of miraculous that we don't have more accidents in CA than we do!
BTTT
Why isn't this man governor or president, for gosh sake?
I agree with him 100%. We have always had the greatest system of Freeways in the world, and it's about the only thing the state and Federal government deliver in return for my tax money. I would hate that California end up like the Northeast, which I thought was a complete joke in terms of toll roads.
In fact we should charger northeasterners a fee just to drive on our freeways.
Right again, Tom.
Toll roads are ok, as long as there is a non-toll alternative on an essentially parallel route.