Across American, government is facing the reality of a big revenue deficit at a time of huge spending needs for roads. As our roads get older and busier, they need replacement, improvement and much more maintenance. And that’s expensive.
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Why does it cost so much more now than it once did?
Years ago I saw an article (NOT on cnn, so it might have been true) that I66 inside the beltway cost $11 Million per mile to build. Probably $20 Million in today’s dollars.
My office is connected to my house, I can travel for the most part during non-peak hours.
But this is flat out stupid.
Lack of roads is causing heavy traffic.
Government is the problem and taxing the f&$% out of people who paid for that road with their tax dollars is not the answer.
Ahhhh, DC, those that reside and work there are getting rich off of the rest of us, $40 to them is like a dollar to those outside the DC beltway. Raise the toll, $40 is too cheap.
Simple solution - don’t use the road. No one is making you use it. There are other routes. This is capitalism at work. Why are you people knocking it?
Like everything else in state government here the "Turnpike Authority" is where elected reps park their favorite illiterate brother-in-law to keep him quiet.
So what have these crooked government bastards been doing with all our gas taxes over the years??
Carpool lanes are for the elite. You always could drive free in them if you had a driver. Tolling them was just a way to attempt to offset some load rather than expand lanes and given the complete mayhem new ones in my area of CA cause I doubt they’ll stay as they are for long.
Here, they are apparently load based, but if there is an accident or people are trying to go in and out of them outside of the sensors they load up and you end up paying your highest tolls while crawling or at a standstill. The most recently added, on I-680 and I-580 in the east bay have dashed lines delimiting them, so it’s “legal” to cross over and people appear to have clued into this quickly and crush the toll lane flow trying to exit during increasing traffic to avoid the photo sensor.
A couple weeks back I was cited for being in one before it’s 8:00 PM end time (my clock said 8, citation said it was 7:58:41) and I replied to it that I would need the photograph, timing instrumentation make and calibration information, and a copy of the contract documents granting whomever the power to assess fines. The response was “As a courtesy, we’ve voided this citation.”
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Discourge the cockroaches from living in NVA
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Discourge the cockroaches from living in NVA
The plebeians in DC are complaining that they're being outbid to use the toll roads.
DC-area drivers blast I-66 tolling system as fees hit $40 mark
All that wealth has to go somewhere.
-PJ
If D.C. is so bad huge tolls are necessary, then Pres. Trump’s plan to move some agency offices to places other than D.C. is a good idea. Plus, he should shrink all of the federal government 10% by the end of his second term.
Another article from yesterday with some 70 comments if anyone cares to scan thru them
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3611472/posts
DC-area drivers blast I-66 tolling system as fees hit $40 mark ^
In addition to the $40 toll road charge there is the cost of hipwaders and a gas mask to wear when moving around in the DC swamp area.
“government is facing the reality of a big revenue deficit at a time of huge spending needs for roads.”
Construction companies are capable of working twice as fast at half the cost.
Clean that corruption up, and we’ll find ourselves with more money.
This road always WAS a nightmare. A 1960s-era agreement prohibits Virginia from widening the highway beyond the existing two lanes each way. At the DC-end, it dumps you from the highway only city streets with one-lane feeders (and lights).
And the tolls ? Used to subsidize “express buses” and bike lanes. . .
Lol. Like I feel sorry for the bureaucrats and other ne’er-do-wells who commute in DC. Screw you b@st@rds.