Newspaper wants West Virginia Turnpike tolls extended.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ask them in NYCity where their monthly toll road EZPass bill is starting to look like their mortgage payment
2 posted on
04/26/2017 1:15:10 PM PDT by
Mr. K
(***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF OBAMACARE REPEAL THAT IS WORSE THAN KEEPING IT ONE MORE DAY***)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I thought the WV Turnpike was paid for years ago.
Also, they have a $0.40 toll at one place, why not just make it easier for everyone and make it either $0.50 or $1.00?
3 posted on
04/26/2017 1:16:11 PM PDT by
adamjeeps
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
We have looked all around the issue for the past few years and have not found a single, solitary good reason the $2 fee shouldnt be continued once the bonds are paid off in May 2019.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Kill the tolls.
We were supposed to on the Golden Gate bridge, once it was paid for.
All they’ll do is keep jacking up the tolls to pay for the latest transportation pork, busses, trains....
5 posted on
04/26/2017 1:32:55 PM PDT by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
We have looked all around the issue for the past few years and have not found a single, solitary good reason the $2 fee shouldnt be continued once the bonds are paid off in May 2019. Probably not a single solitary good reason, but certainly a laudable idea that a Government would keep their promise to terminate a tax when the bonds it was designated for are paid off. Someone better put a stop to this before it spreads.
6 posted on
04/26/2017 1:36:40 PM PDT by
etcb
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Of course. In the statists’ minds, money should continue to be taken from citizens, with NOTHING in return. A boot stomping a human face, forever.
7 posted on
04/26/2017 1:39:40 PM PDT by
backwoods-engineer
(Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The answer for them is simple: Issue new bonds before 2019 so tolls will be required to pay the new debt.
8 posted on
04/26/2017 1:42:08 PM PDT by
adamjeeps
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Toll roads in Texas can read a license plate @ 200 mph. No Humans required.
In a world with self driving cars, toll booth worker’s “good jobs” making change are the reason to keep the tolls?
WV can vote Republican, but the backward Democrat mindset is hard to shake.
10 posted on
04/26/2017 1:44:09 PM PDT by
UNGN
(I've been here since '98 but had nothing to say until now)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
How about “because you sold construction of it on the toll ending when the bonds were paid”?
At worst they could still layoff the collection crew, make it $.50-$1.00 and put quarter baskets in with arms over the drive lane.
13 posted on
04/26/2017 2:21:59 PM PDT by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Around $90 million is collected in annual toll revenues, all of the maintenance of the highway. Price tag? An estimated $60 million per year.
What have they done with the 30 million annual profit?
14 posted on
04/26/2017 2:34:46 PM PDT by
DUMBGRUNT
(Go Trump!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
People NEVER learn.
There is NO SUCH THING as a temporary tax, fee, or toll. Ask the long-suffering people of Northern Illinois. The tollway authority there is a criminal cash machine tha the Mafia and drug cartels could only DREAM about. With the government as the enforcers, to boot.
16 posted on
04/26/2017 2:59:48 PM PDT by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Why end the tolls? Because politicians promised the tolls would end and so they should. My father predicted they wouldn’t.
17 posted on
04/26/2017 3:04:40 PM PDT by
kalee
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What is the FIRST reason the article lists for continuing the toll system?
Forget in the short term that legislative inaction makes hostages of Authority employees who cannot know what the future holds for their employment prospects.
So now the primary purpose of a road is to provide government employment for life. Triple face-palm indeed.
18 posted on
04/26/2017 3:18:37 PM PDT by
Bernard
(The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Thanks Tol, and thanks for the ping yesterday.
Generally when one reads something this ONE SIDED, there’s more going on than meets the eye...as in some ‘cozy’ relationships. I suspect something similar here, as it’s not like the people in WV, after being the prime target of the Dems (due to their coal mining) are swimming around in money they don’t need.
20 posted on
04/26/2017 5:27:50 PM PDT by
BobL
(In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ohio faced this same issue years ago, with its Turnpike paying off the original bonds. The choice was to keep the tolls and the Turnpike Commission, or turn it over to ODOT along with all the other interstates. The legislature and the people wisely decided to keep the turnpike as is. The result is superior maintanence and operation, with some modest toll increases as the years go by. As for general drive-ability compared to the other interstates maintained by the usual state employees, there is no comparison.
WV Tpke is a beautiful highway and the people should keep the status quo.
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