The more troubling aspect is that many of these roads are owned and operated by foreign corporations. Research CINTRA.
many of these roads are owned and operated by foreign corporations. Research CINTRA.
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Yep, Feds, state and local gov’ts are getting out of
building, owning and investing dollars in roadways.
I have no problem with them trying to collect legitimate toll fees. People will always try to cheat the system, this is just another example.
What irritates me is the way some of these toll roads are set up. My mother and I went to a suburb of Dallas last year to meet a cousin. I saw a sign saying the road I was approaching would take me to I 20, the one I needed, so I took that road. AFTER getting on this road, I started seeing toll road signs. NO advance warning at all, no sign saying I was getting on a toll road. No toll booth where we could simply give them our less than 2 bucks.
We were pretty pissed, if I had known it was a toll road I already had a route mapped out, no problem getting there without a toll road costing us extra. I don’t mind a toll road, if I have no choice, but to end up on one without knowing it then having no way to make my own decision on whether to take a toll road or not is infuriating. We finally paid the toll, but not without letting them know we were not happy about the deception.
As far as this article goes, if the toll road is marked as such and you use it, pay the damn toll. Same as people trying to find ways to use the high occupancy vehicle lanes when they don’t have the legal right to do so. I’ve seen news articles showing people with cardboard cutouts of people in the passenger seat. Not long ago one had a cardboard cutout of Trump...This is the same scenario, just trying to cheat the system. Fine the crap outta the bastards...
A lot of those foreign owners are in financial distress because they made such terrible deals for those roads. U.S. companies were smart enough to stay away from them.