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Opinion | Could tolls be the answer to fix Michigan's roads, bridges?
Bridge Michigan ^
| December 24, 2020
| Baruch Feigenbaum
Posted on 01/07/2021 7:22:12 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Opinion | Could tolls be the answer to fix Michigan's roads, bridges?No; only trained highway workers can do that.
But they do like to get paid something for their labors.
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posted on
01/08/2021 4:02:39 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: madison10
Tolls ONLY for those driving ELECTRIC vehicles!
The REST of us poor smucks alREADY use the user-pays principle at the PUMP!
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posted on
01/08/2021 4:04:53 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Alberta's Child
Let me add a third.
Tolls are a GREAT way of taxation without representation to travelers THRU the state!
This is not toll related, but when I travel west; on I70 from Indianapolis; I make sure I've enough gas so I do NOT have to buy it in Illinois!
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posted on
01/08/2021 4:09:56 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Cato Institute did come out with a policy paper on how you could institute a VMT while preserving the driver’s privacy. What force in politics would do THAT?
Besides; yer 'smart' phone/car already KNOWS where you've been, and will make assumptions on that data to guess where you MIGHT be going next!
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posted on
01/08/2021 4:14:00 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: cherry
...you must pay for but you get to go fast, fast fast...Didn't this kind of thing used to be called bribery?
If the Mafia does it it's called EXTORTION; so...
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posted on
01/08/2021 4:16:00 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Tacrolimus1mg
The piece of I70 in Kansas between KC and Topeka is in really good shape!
And the plazas do NOT rip you off on the gas prices.
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posted on
01/08/2021 4:19:05 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
I was gonna mention the bridge! LMAO!!
To: 9YearLurker
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posted on
01/08/2021 4:23:08 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
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posted on
01/08/2021 4:32:52 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
Right—but tolls are the rationalization for the plate readers.
To: Elsie
What automated tolls make possible of course is pricing the riff-raff off the roads and out of their cars.
To: BobL
Pennsylvania also dropped the I-80 tolling plan due to local political opposition. For may people living the rural parts of central PA, I-80 is one of their primary routes for local travel.
The real purpose of that tolling plan was to generate revenue from motorists who travel through the state and don't pay any fuel taxes.
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posted on
01/08/2021 8:10:53 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
To: Elsie
I’ll say! Everything’s undoubtedly a damned GPS nowadays.
To: BobL
We’ll be lucky if we simply become more like Europe (the liberal ideal). But with the Commies in charge, it will be more like good ol’ Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain or Cuba or Venezuela, at least in states like Maryland.
To: 9YearLurker
I can see that. Just monitor the EZ-Pass records of the Deplorables.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Yep. The IMF wants to tie your browser searches to access to credit. Maybe they’ll come up with browsing-history and social media post-based tolls and access.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
No, because it would incite violence and road rage at the toll booths.
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posted on
01/09/2021 8:52:25 AM PST
by
equaviator
(If it seems like it's too bad to be true then maybe it isn't.)
To: equaviator
Not necessarily when they’re highway-speed gantries.
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