Posted on 11/10/2005 6:27:08 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Private industry sets tolls on major roads they build. This allows them to build roads they don't have to toll (such as neighborhood roads), hire workers to build these roads (helping the economy), and turn a profit for their shareholders.
See #21. You don't set up a toll on every road.
Didn't AC/DC do a song about that road?
I'm certain it was done with good intentions...
Who pays for the other roads that aren't toll roads?
the mile marker 69 between lansing and charlotte on i69 disappears frequently too.
Cool idea!
But I just realized that the law won't let us have a monopoly...
So I'm afraid you'll have to set up your toll booth (and lemonade stand) on one side of his driveway. And I'll set up my toll booth on the other side. We'll be competitors and offer him a "choice" in the market (wink-wink).
(Hmmmmmm.... I guess that means I'm gonna have to think-up something better than a lemonade stand...
Sheeeesh... there's always a catch...
this market competition stuff is rough!)
There's no pattern to be seen in any of this.
It's all just coincidence.
Right?
north from Edinburg, not Corpus; then to San Antonio.
I know! I'll invest in a squeegee and a spray bottle of window cleaner!!!
The roads that aren't toll roads would be paid for out of the profits from toll roads. The company would have to hire employees to build or maintain these extra roads wouldn't they? Eventually, and hopefully, the market will winnow out the small guys creating an oligarchy or even monopoly with certain communities (although doubtful over a whole state). Contrary to the robber baron and anti-trust myths of the late 19th century, it would be a win-win situation for the companies and the users (see Northern Pacific Rail as an example)
I am so mad I didn't think of that!
Wow! Someone in TX sure spent lots of money putting up "Future I-69 Corridor" signs. If you drive between Corpus, and Brownsville as I do all the time you will know the signs.
I realize your fear of a free market and a non-dependency upon government. It destroys your whole warped world view doesn't it? I see that in most Republicans these days..
US 281 begins at Brownsville, and goes up near Del Rio, Wichita Falls, and on through Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota, ending at Dunseith, ND, just about ten miles or so from the International Peace Gardens on the US-Canadian Border.
It is an obvious candidate for a Mexico to Canada highway.
How about those signs that say
Lloyd Bentsen Hwy
Futture I-69 corridor.
Seeing Lloyd Bentson and 69 on the same sign almost made me puke.
Oh hush up....
Can't you see that mlc and I are competing for your business???
Why can't you just sit back and relax and enjoy the anticipation of all the wonderful services we're going to provide you with?
Thanks for the ping!
The Illegal problem down there is already so bad that hundreds of thousands are pouring across the border now. If you add I-69 that provides the illegals with a direct path to the Heartland.
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