Posted on 08/03/2015 6:09:20 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
!GNIP
It costs a lot of money to collect these tolls, especially from drivers already paying gas and other taxes.
What happened to all that transportation bill money that just got passed?
You should check out the tolls for the San Francisco Golden Gat bridge. It is beyond belief.
Isn’t it 7 dollars during rush hour?
While there are ways to make yourself impervious to AET, I would recommend paying the toll or taking a free road. I believe people have been caught doing the license plate-covering trick.
So it cost $10 a day round trip if you have a job on that takes you on that toll road?
210 days x $10 = $2100 stolen from you and you still have potholes everywhere + you pay gas taxes.
Actually, you’re only paying the 5 bucks if you go westbound.
I’ve been on the Pennsylvania Turnpike before. The last time I was on it, in 2014, it was in decent shape.
I recently came back from overseas to JFK and needed to be in Baltimore. Rather than fly, I rented a car and drove down. $36 in tolls to get from the airport to Towson, Maryland.
My current Houston, Texas area commute requires $7.35 in tolls, one way.
Fortunately some days the traffic is low enough at the times I travel to avoid some of those tolls. I start early and end late when I can to miss some traffic.
Do you use the Katy Freeway express lanes?
Once every driver has an ez pass, it will be super easy to calculate the time between sensors, and then mail you a series of speeding tickets.
No, I’m on the Southwest side headed to the far east side. A long commute, over 50 miles one way.
But it is a good job for good folks and pays well.
Some of that can be done on alternate routes depending on traffic.
SF GG bridge is only 80 years old. Prolly ain’t paid off yet. I haven’t been in that are for years to pay a toll. I have no idea the cost.
Why would anyone live in Joisey or Pennsyltucky? My theory is that the only reason people live there is they’re either stationed there in the military, or go there to suck on the teat provided by all the suckers who have nowhere else to go! I drove north through PA and was listening to all the horrible crap they were reporting on the news radio, and realized “it’s not news!...it’s the same crap that always happened since I remember in the 70s!”
> What happened to all that transportation bill money that just got passed?
I’m betting it was parlayed into other pockets er I mean projects...
Great idea but they’d just put RFID tag readers in vehicles once they caught onto that, then they’d come out with RFID signal blockers then progress to biometric readers on the drivers. As long as they have our money to develop the technology the fleecing will never stop.
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