Posted on 06/03/2011 7:28:53 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Who the hell edited this article?
Democrats. Go figure.
Maryland is THE Freak state. These politician morons can’t/won’t stop spending. The Freak LIBs/DIMs continue out of control.
Things keep getting better and better for the working class ...
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I don’t think I’ve said this in the past four days but I HATE MARYLAND. Thanks, I feel a bit better already.
Living on the Eastern Shore of Virginia (8 miles from the MD line,) I have 2 sources for daily news - Salisbury or Virginia Beach/Norfolk/Hampton Roads - so I do both.
I’ve been following this in the Salisbury Daily Times in regard to the Bay Bridge toll increase and as much as I hate to say it -— it is not an unreasonable increase. It hasn’t been raised in decades.
So they haven’t raised it in decades. How about paying off the bridge and removing the tolls????? Where does all that money go...to pay for the inflated state worker pensions and for welfare in Baltimore???? A few years ago MD put a toll booth on the Delaware state line on I95...just out of the blue and charges several dollars to pass through. Stop spending, you creeps!
I know nothing about the I95 toll in MD, although I do know the I95 toll in Delaware is the highest, per mile, toll on the interstate system of any state.
As to where the money goes, it should be going for the maintenance of the roads and bridges. However, I know enough about how Maryland operates to know that you are absolutely correct in your assessment of where it will actually go.
If you do not pay the tuition for illegal immigrants, you wouldn’t have to raise tolls on the working class.
Hahahahahahahahaha......sometimes I crack myself up.
The MD toll booth is just down the road a bit from the Delaware one (on the “going north” side). Both states want your money...BADLY!
Ouch! Maryland sux.
I don’t think that it’s necessarily unreasonable either, at least for cars. They really should reduce the difference between auto and truck tolls, however. Currently, truck tolls are six times the rate of car tolls. They should reduce the gap as they increase the tolls, until the truck/car toll ratio is more like 4/1, or even 3/1.
Trucks already had their tolls raised in 2009, that’s why I have this sentiment.
As far as I can tell, no MD tollbooth has been erected at the state line. As of August 2010, when I last drove up there, there were just the Susquehanna River tolls in MD and the state line tolls in DE.
...and those two toll plazas have been there for as long as I can remember. They were there when I first went to Philly in 1979, and were certainly there years prior to that time.
This is what happens when Marylanders elect a closet marxist like O’Malley as governor. He comes out of the closet and shows his true colors.
The state is a fucking mess and will always be until their is a major political purge of all Democrats in any position of power. And pigs will fly backwards.
I grew up in Baltimore and loved Maryland during the 50’s early 60’s. Then it went to Hell and never returned. Thanks Democrats: for the high crime, stinking schools, loss of the steel and shipyard industries, illegals, tons of regulations, and the worse politicians in the country (except for the Commies in California).
You are correct; there’s the Susquehanna River toll north in I-95 (currently $5.00), and on the Delaware side of the same road, both directions (currently $4.00). Going south, I take the backstreets around the Delaware tolls and get back on I-95 just after crossing the state line. Going north, I used to take the Bay Bridge and pay only $2.50, then go east on U.S. Route 50 until I reached U.S. Route 301, where it connected with I-95 just past the Delaware toll, and avoid both the MD and DE tolls. I may need to reconsider my alternate route now. Have any ideas?
I got stuck coming up on a Friday afternoon for two hours at that border toll - never did know why, but I went around it from then on. Take I-95 up to Elkton and take 279 north to DE route 4 over to either route 72 or route 273 back onto I95 bypassing the tolls at the border and the 3-5 mile backups. Better food choices, cheaper gas, and calmer drive - what’s not to like?
Wrongo. Try driving north on I95. Hold onto your wallet.
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