Tolls used to be used to maintain the bridge or tunnel where they were collected. If the "cheats" cost $7 Million per year how much are these bastards collecting and where does all that money go?
I always wonder if you could use a monitor shield over your tag. The kind people put over their monitors so you have to be directly in front to read them.
Why are truck operators being asked to pay for the world trade center by crossing a bridge?
Sounds like a tax scam to me to no benefit of the trucker.
There’s a spray on product called PhantomPlate that “hides” he plate number legally. It costs $30.
At least I think it is legal. It has been tested by the Denver Police Dept and seems to work.
Hey, wait a minute — “Vaquiz, 36, was charged with theft of service, possession of burglar tools and eluding arrest.”
So the police are saying the mechanical device that flips the license plate is a “burglar tool”, akin to breaking in to a building with a special crowbar?
That’s ridiculous and over-reaching.
In Northern Virginia, toll increases are being used to fund the Silver Line Metro Rail extension, bike racks, and all sorts of other "green" transit initiatives.
Nevermind that most of these initiatives mostly benefit very high-income folks in the inner suburbs (most of whom are liberals) at the expense of moderate-income folks in the outer suburbs (who tend middle-of-the-road or lean conservative).
It’s always interesting to see where the full force of the law will be directed. Bureaucrats give themselves away when they chase and publicize such trifles while large-scale corruption continues unabated elsewhere.
If the price of the tolls is so high that people are trying to evade them, perhaps they should be brought down to more reasonable levels. Tolls should not be used for anything other than road maintenance.
Why is the government building the new trade center?
Wans’t that a privately owned building before?
The money goes to pay the toll collectors and turnpike police that patrol the roads to catch speeders, toll-jumpers, and collect more money to pay themselves. There is no, absolutely reason other than political largesse in my opinion.
A- no one knows and B- through the hands of the authority to RAT politics, of course!
And they want to know why stuff costs so much. This gets passed on to you and me. And how long are we going to take it?
this story is a week and half old and been posted numerous times.
We going for some kind of record?
Pay the king!
Same story all across this land. When the SF/Oakland Bay Bridge was built, the "temporary" toll was promised to be only for that bridge, and to end when the cost of building it was paid off. That was sometime in the 1950s, but the 50 cent toll was continued and raised repeatedly, now at $5. The money has been used to build other bridges on the bay (each with their own high toll despite construction already paid for), and other unrelated state projects.
Same story for the Golden Gate Bridge, tolls are used for a bus system, ferry boats, and other pet projects long after the bridge costs were paid off by the "temporary" tolls.