So much easier to get that old Kickback money by charging outrageous toll prices than actually building roads. No wonder politicians love toll roads.
Of course that’s what the original term highway robbery meant.
So much easier to get that old Kickback money by charging outrageous toll prices than actually building roads. No wonder politicians love toll roads.
Of course that’s what the original term highway robbery meant.
Decades ago at a block Christmas Party, a neighbor and a retired Marine Major, who had worked for the city and county re roads and other infra structure after his retirement and became a tax sucking liberal, was at the party.
He was pushing for new toll roads and bridges in our town and county, saying that was the best way to pay for them.
My normally quiet wife on issues like this, said “Hell No!”
“We and our kids when they became adults would be paying tolls forever!”
He said that would never happen. Then, my wife asked why the tolls on the Golden Gate Bridge and Oakland Bridge and other toll roads only went up. He sputtered and left the room.
A few years later, they moved and he passed on. We saw his widow, while she was visiting our area. She gave my wife a hug for shutting her loud mouth husband up, years ago.
We also found out later one of the women present at the party was on the Board of Directors for the Golden Gate Bridge.
A couple of years later, she recalled my wife’s stance and laughed. She told us that the tolls would never stop on any bridge in California. She said most people in California were too dumb to realize that reality. She was the old type of democrat. One you could get along with!