Mr. Barone has obviously never driven the Pennsylvania Turnpike
You beat me to it. Beyond the condition of the turnpike itself are the highly overpaid toll booth workers. Miserable people.
The Chicago toll road was supposed to only last as a toll road until the tolls paid for the road. That was a couple of decades ago, the tolls are still there.
Tolls create a new industry, toll collectors and toll management. Most money from tolls go to payroll and benefits, not the roads. This of course drives up the total cost of transportation by adding an unneeded layer of excessive costs.
Tolls and gas taxes always go up here in PA but the roads actually seem to get worse.