[Seruzawa]

“It is kind of like double taxation,” said Spencer. “They’ve already paid for the road.”

Lol! I’d love to only be double taxed on just about anything.

[vette6387]

I’d rather see private entities run our transportation infrastructure. Then at least the employees they had wouldn’t be a lifetime obligation for us all. Government “agencies” primary reason for being is to provide jobs for people who don’t really want to work.
And as far as paying tolls or paying taxes, you do have to have money to build and maintain, so either way the “user/taxpayer” pays. But in the case of tolling, only the user pays, which is a whole lot fairer way to approach the financing problem.

[Rusty0604]

Sherrod Brown says the 200 billion is a far cry from the trillion Trump promised. So the 800 billion private investment doesn’t count for democrats, because they won’t be able to raise taxes, give their pet projects to their cronies, and using union labor.

[seowulf]

That means tapping the pocketbooks of motorists, who already bristle over traditional federal and state gas taxes that pay for construction and maintenance of the nation’s highways.

I'm sorry, Mr. Motorist.

That money is being used for bicycle lanes, bullet trains, and scenic hiking trails.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Infrastructure plan (Houston Comical, 6/8)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

P3 Wars Continue – Trump vs. Texas vs. Tolls (the T3s)

[Alberta's Child]

As I see it, the biggest obstacle to a privately-run highway is that it would be a terrible investment for the private sector without major concessions from the government that would effectively make it a government-run facility anyway. This is why most of the public-private arrangements in the U.S. seem to involve foreign owners. American investors are smart enough to steer clear of them.

One of the biggest reasons why these are bad investments is that every inch of roadway comes with a potentially enormous financial liability in motor vehicle crashes. This is not a small consideration in a country where 40,000 people lose their lives in these incidents every year, and several times that number are seriously injured. This risk is multiplied even further when you consider that the highway operator has no control over who uses the road. At a time when the average car on the road today is 12 years old, and when state governments are falling all over themselves to hand out driver's licenses to illegal aliens who don't even belong in the country, you have to ask yourself who would ever be dumb enough to accept the risk of serving this kind of "customer base."

[lurk]

I don’t say hate, almost never say it.

But I do hate tollways. People from out of town without the EZ Pass end up burning through rolls of quarters. Spend a week driving around Chicago, paying for downtown parking and tolls. Madness.