I live in IL, where toll roads are everywhere. Not only are our roads WAY worse than MI’s, but we recently had a former freeway turned into a tollway because the money from the toll roads is not going towards road maintenance, but towards almost anything else (like our overburdened pension system). Any work done to our roads is poor in quality and all of the same areas are torn up EVERY YEAR. It’s inexcusable.
Just put in some GD concrete and have the roads be good for a decade or two; or more. It’ll be cheaper in the long run.
Trust me, once you put in one, they will reproduce with stupid frequency, all while your road quality goes nowhere.
“Just put in some GD concrete and have the roads be good for a decade or two; or more. It’ll be cheaper in the long run. Trust me, once you put in one, they will reproduce with stupid frequency, all while your road quality goes nowhere.”
My (conservative) kids already have friends apologizing to them for (the friends) voting for Biden. (yes, real Americans did vote for Biden, many of them)
They admit they trusted the media over my kids but NOW are finding out just how sick Biden is (regarding his health, in this case) and the policies that the Democrats really want, but were disciplined enough to ‘keep it in the family’ (with the media’s help, of course).
My point is that once STUPID political decisions are made, in this case turning roads into piggy banks for Democrat-run governments, regardless of the pretty promises (no more potholes, for example), it is often IMPOSSIBLE to reverse them. Toll roads are an excellent example, with Kentucky being the only state that I know of to actually keep their word and remove tolls.
So, Michigan can have its toll roads, if it really wants them so bad, but they shouldn’t be surprised if their roads DO NOT get any better, since the state will simply divert other money that would have been used for roads to ‘more pressing’ concerns...which means, in this case, making their voting base happy.
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.