[Willie Green]

North Carolinians would be well advised to avoid any highway "privatizion" scams.
If tolls are collected for I-95 upgrade and maintenance, then every penny collected should be used for that purpose and not diverted to enrich political "private" cronies.

[jiggyboy]

PA is starting to talk about tolls on I-80 as well. Anything but cutting spending, as usual.

[Pecos]

Tolls established never go away. Ask yourself why the Golden Gate Bridge toll is still in place. It does NOT cost as much as they collect to keep it in good repair.

[Born Conservative]

Same going on here in PA with I-80.

[OldNavyVet]

I can still remember why gasoline is taxed when you buy it at the pump ...

“TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN ROADS.”

[Fido969]

They can call it the John Edwards Shafting Highway.

[Bob Buchholz]

I have entirely mixed feelings on this. I despise toll roads unless they offer some great benefit such as higher speed limits or more controlled access.

However, last year I traveled from NC to New Hampshire for a wedding and was shocked at the amount of toll charges on I-95 after you went north of DC.

Now I wonder why we let the yankees travel back and forth from their hell-holes up north to Florida and back for nothing when they gladly charge everyone else a king’s ransom to get from here to there.

[concerned about politics]

Politicians steal our wages and pass oppressive laws. That's what they do. That's all they do.
Actually, I think the world would be a better place without self aggrandizing politicians. They're worse than lawyers. Most of them ARE lawyers!

[Brookhaven]

Well at least they aren’t thinking about some boondogle like building trains.

[gitmogrunt]

Alternate Headline:

Blue State needs a scheme to suck money out of the people's wallets, to pay for "State freeloader social Programs."

[Logical me]

Why not. Next the Government will tax the air we breath. The newly designed chip to be installed in all citizens of the new Communists America will have software that will record exhale and inhale. Forgot the existing software in the chip will record every time you pis@. That will be 30 bucks a leak. What fun we will have!!!!!! Hail our King Obama, the mighty.

Kidding aside not one American does not benefit from the highways. Most all goods use the roads. But with toll roads the users pay a larger share of the cost per vehicle and even if this cost is passed on to the non drivers in the form of goods each of those share will be minimal. Drivers, screwed again.

[fso301]

I’ve driven on that highway and the only problem with it is the 65mph speed limit.

[patriot preacher]

I think NOT. I’m a native North Carolinian, and I know ways AROUND such stupidity. AS IF I-95 isn’t SLOW ENOUGH!!!

[HenpeckedCon]

They should just charge “South of the Border” $ 1,000.00 for every sign they have up. That should take care of any maintenance upkeep they may have.

[Clemenza]

They’ve been doing this on the northern stretch of I-95 in New Jersey since before I was born. Since North Carolina is now New Jersey South, why should we be surprised?

[Tax-chick]

The North Carolina Department of Transportation recently hired two consulting firms, PBS&J and Baker Engineering – at a cost of $6.4 million ...

Our highway department in one sentence.