Posted on 04/17/2017 5:10:45 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Florida ought to consider entering the 21st century if they are still collecting cash along the roadside.
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This is Orlando ,, you want to make every tourist buy a transponder before going to Disney?
Did they ever build the northwest part of the Greenway, which would have run through the Apopka area? If not, the stories about cash shortfalls and corruption posted here could explain why.
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The NW loop is under construction... starts a bit to the west of where the 429 connects to OBT ..
The last time I was in New York, I paid a $1 toll to cross the I-84 bridge over the Hudson River, and then went on into Connecticut. When I came back, I got out my quarters, expecting to pay the toll again, but to my surprise, there was no toll for the traffic going west. Is New York trying to encourage people to leave New England, or discourage them from going there?
It’s been common procedure for the past 40 years to have one-way tolling. You pay twice the toll in one direction and go free in the other.
That's what I did when I realized what the roads were like around there. They sell them in the vending machines at the welcome centers.
Of course, they could, if they really wanted to get with the times, enter into agreements with other states. For example, some (newer adhesive as opposed to the old velcro models) Dallas area toll tags can be used in Oklahoma.
See my post 25.
One small example of that is the portion of the NY Thruway that branches off the mainline and runs through downtown Buffalo to Niagara Falls. The tolls (25¢) were lifted in the late nineties.
Traffic grew exponentially. I was amazed that a quarter could have dissuaded thousands of commuters from taking a particular route to work.
The laws of economics really do work!
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