Posted on 08/25/2018 9:59:07 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Where I’m from, toll bonds are NEVER retired. They are designed to be that way. They will still exist at least until the Universe achieves maximum entropy.
Yes, people still think it is the old bond mechanism, when many of them now are simply private roads with eternal government kickbacks. They’ll neever be “paid off”.
What a pack of greedy bastards our politicans have become!
Last I knew there was a frontage road along the turnpike that one could drive for free.
#5. Not since you wrote this!!
Tolls are one of the original American scams dating back to King George days. Nothing has changed except for roads and automobiles.
Connecticut citizens, LaMont wants tolls...(so he can spend more of your money!!!).
https://ballotpedia.org/West_Virginia_state_budget_and_finances
Scroll down to spending by function. This hike ain’t about roads.
Does the WV Turnpike have a route number? In that whole article, only a WV insider would know what actual road they’re talking about.
“Tolls are being raised so that the Parkways Authority can sell bonds for road projects throughout southern West Virginia.”
Not to build the road, not to operate the road, not even to maintain the road - but to create a SLUSH FUND.
So much for the meme “Those who drive on the road, pay for the road”. Well, I guess they do, but they pay for MUCH MORE also (such as the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh transit systems when they drive on the Pennsylvania Turnpike).
I-77
Taxes and tolls never go away
The toll road is I 77 and I 64 combined from Beckley to Charleston.
As I recall, I 77 only sections are not tolled. Ditto I 64. The toll is when both are joined
However, the choice of paying double toll or driving on the terrible terrible West Virginia mountain roads the interstates replace is easy
Effective Jan. 1, 2019, a round trip to Charleston will cost $24. The current cost is $12.
So, it took him a while to get to the punchline. So, it was the second last sentence in the article. So, Charles Owens, is the guy with the enormous photo.
Harpers Ferry bump
His info does not jive with the info on the turnpike website. It was not easy to find, but am unlimited pass is currently $25 per quarter or $95 per year. Three tolls gates are $2 each. I can’t tell if you just pay $2 To go the distance or if there are enroute travel barriers.
I looked it up on Google maps. Frontage road is poor and broken in pieces.
CT actually got rid of theirs. I was surprised and just a kid at the time.
My dad told me that these things, sold as temporary, never go away.
However, it sounds to me like they are seeing PA’s success with such a program. It costs about $25 to drive the PA pike from Harrisburg to Somerset and I think it’s like $32 to Pitt.
That’s one freakin’ way. And lemme tell you, the road still has traffic, still has construction.
Thank you. I’ve been all over WV thru the years, but never had occasion to use their turnpike. Some wag once wrote a song, poking fun at the Pennsy Turnpike, “Pennsylvania Turnpike, I Can’t Get Over You,” telling all his problems on that road. The local Harrisburg morning radio guy, the late Ron Drake played that song whenever some turnpike issue was in the news. One thing that irritates me is the salaries the Turnpike Commissioners are rumored to pull down for very little effort.
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