[pepperdog]

Toll roads are the "new" cash cow for many state governments. Not that they are really new, we've had one toll road here in Oklahoma for over 45 years, it was supposed to become "free" when the construction costs were paid. It remains a toll road to this day, supposedly to maintain it, but I suspect to generate funds to build other toll roads, which will then do the same for still other toll roads.

I always said if I were ruler of the state I'd abolish the Turnpike Commission, I guess someone heard me as they are now buried deep within the Highway department and not visible, nor evidently accountable, to the public. It is unbelievable that we pay such huge taxes on gasoline and there is not enough money to maintain roads.

[hopespringseternal]

Not that they are really new, we've had one toll road here in Oklahoma for over 45 years, it was supposed to become "free" when the construction costs were paid.

If you watch carefully, you will find them periodically restructuring the financials any time they get used to paying it off. Imagine refinancing the remaining balance on your house to a new thirty year note every time you get five years from paying it off.

[LibertarianInExile]

Especially when registration taxes in many areas are a percentage of value and gas taxes have progressively inched up.

I think toll roads are out-and-out thievery if the state has already implemented taxes for roadbuilding and maintenance. THIEVERY. And I come from Florida, where if you want to get from one side of Orlando to the other, or Tampa to Miami, you're gonna have to take a toll road or die idling.