Posted on 07/08/2017 11:07:52 AM PDT by Twotone
The Oregon Legislature has managed its big achievement of the 2017 session: It passed a massive transportation bill on July 6.
The bill calls for Oregon to raise $5.3 billion in new taxes and fees over the next decade to pay for major freeway expansions and improvements to mass transportation. Some of those plans—like the nation's first bicycle sales tax—are drawing more attention than others.
One of the key ways the bill hopes to raise revenue? Toll roads.
The bill calls for tolls on Interstate 5 and Interstate 205, beginning at the Oregon-Washington border and continuing throughout the Portland metro area, concluding where the two highways intersect in Wilsonville.
The bill calls for the Oregon Transportation Commission to receive approval by Dec. 31, 2018 from the Federal Highway Administration to collect the tolls.
(Excerpt) Read more at wweek.com ...
At least they aren’t looking for ways to fleece the rural portion of the State. For once.
You don’t think the cost of those tolls, the ones incurred by businesses, will be passed along? Folks in rural areas will be paying, too.
I always found it odd that something that costs about $30,000 a foot to build is called a freeway.
Tolls worked out great for Illinois. LMAO.
Hey, those pensions aren’t going to pay themselves.
How will this work w/o massive bottlenecks at the north, south and I-84 entrances? What about in city interchanges? Congestion is already a problem, rushours will be gridlock. Personally, I only go to Portland to take flights out of PDX. Let Antifa take over the rest of the city as they already own downtown where traffic vs demonstrations/riots makes access very iffy.
This was predicted by an OF (Original FReeper) in an article from 2005.
They'll undoutedly implement an IPass/EZPass type system, as other states have done. The transponders work at freeway speeds, so traffic doesn't even have to slow down.
“Someones gonna have to go back and get a s#?tload of dimes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbWg-mozGsU
States can put tolls in interstates? I didn’t know that...
There was a change to federal law about a decade ago that permits this.
Oregon does not have a sales tax, so they got to get money from somewhere. Personally I would prefer raising gas tax to pay for roads.
Oregon does not have a sales tax, so they got to get money from somewhere. Personally I would prefer raising gas tax to pay for roads.
Where do they get the right to impose a toll on a federal highway?
See Post #12.
Interesting (in an entirely disgusting way).
I suppose that I could detour through Longview and take I-30 to Portland from now on.
TANSTAAFL: A Semi-Satirical Look at a World Without Transportation Subsidies
The Beatles sung it well:
If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street
If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat
If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I’ll tax your feet
TAXMAN!!!
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