[mlc9852]

So every road should be a toll road? Unrealistic, especially in neighborhoods.

[Willie Green]

So every road should be a toll road?

Hey, mlc... I gotta deal for ya...
How'd ya like to be 50-50 partners in a toll booth investment?
We'll set it up just past billbears' driveway!
I figure we oughta make a bundle!

[billbears]

Didn't say every road should be a toll road. However, you said it was unrealistic for roads to be built by private industry, when in fact that was the way it was originally done.

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.

[THEUPMAN]

So every road should be a toll road? Unrealistic, especially in neighborhoods.



No ... those roads should be the responsibility of the residents who use them, or the developer who built the subdivision.

We have subsidized developers to long by letting them build roads for the public to maintain just so they can fill their pockets.
Through roads that help the movement of goods and services are one thing, but all those culdesacs that are really just paved driveways for a few houses shouldn't be tax payer funded.