Wake up you folks in the Keystone State!
And have you seen how much toll collectors make? It is nuts! If it was up to me, I'd ban all human toll collecting.
as more tolls come to be, as the article suggest, then the gas taxes and license plate fees will definatley go down ,Right?
And in the case of tolling I-80 in Penna. specifically, all that money would be going to fund transit systems in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Very little of the money will be used to pay for I-80 itself.
Wake up you folks in the Keystone State!
If they were awake around here we never would have elected a Philly Mob Thug to two terms as Governor.
They ever here of high speed cameras? They are much cheaper than building toll booths for people to sit in.
PennDOT prepares stage for upcoming Acid Rock Stock.
PennDOT announced that the full complement of heavy metal and acid rock tie-dye-hards will be on hand when the transportation agency opens its own Acid Rock Highway, I-99. The highway is slated to open, “some time in the near-distant future or thereabouts.”
Paul Preston, publicist for the I-99 project, said the grand opening party for the highway will include the remaining members of Iron Butterfly who will help launch the highway with a concert and a new rendition of the 17-minute heavy metal epic, In-A-Gadda-Davita.
Preston said the band has promised to re-work the song with new lyrics. Should-A-Been-Done-Awhile-Ago will serve as the anthem of the I-99 project, he added.
A local band, the Vengeful Spirits of Dead Commuters, will be one of the opening acts for Iron Butterfly.
Man Working will also perform at Acid RockStock. The five-member band is composed entirely of PennDOT employees and contractors. One guy plays a guitar and the rest stand around, drink coffee, joke and look at him occasionally.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held after the concert. PennDOT adds that the ribbon-cutting is expected to last eight years.
Smoke this one, Willie.
We all remember most of the horrible Supreme Court decisions: Dred Scott, Roe v. Wade, Kelo. But this is the fruit of one which should rank right down there with those, the “one-man-one-vote” decision that overthrew the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which had shown the same wisdom as the U.S. constitution: a lower house elected from districts proportional to population, and an upper house with equal representation for the counties of the Commonwealth.
The result is democracy run rampant with Philly and Pittsburgh imposing taxes on the folks in Clinton and Clearfield Counties (among others) because the rural counties effectively have no voice in the legislature.