Toll lanes are an abomination.
EVERYBODY’S taxes pay for those existing roads, off-ramps, bridges, etc. You should be able to drive in whatever lane you want — for free.
And this author is an innumerate elitist moron when he insists that gas taxes don’t cover maintenance anymore. YES, THEY DO. If anything, technology has made road construction cheaper. An insatiable government just wants more revenue — which they’re NOT gonna spend on roads, they’ll pad their retirement.
Oh, and “toll lanes speed up traffic.” It’s the EXTRA LANE that speeds up traffic, you idiot. The fact that you pay on them to drive in them is irrelevant. When extra FREE lanes were added to the 101 here in California, traffic sped up. It’s indisputable. You just lost that argument, too.
Unfortunately there are plenty of suckers like you in California champing at the bit for toll lanes because you think you can pay to get out of traffic. You can pay to cut in line in front of someone else.
The reality is more free lanes mean faster traffic — for everybody.
Media trying anything they can to defeat Rick Scott for Fla Governor. Almost every day the TBTimes has some negative ‘story’ or column about Rick Scott.
The people of Florida DESERVE just what they’re getting and if Crist can effectively use opposition to toll roads to become their next governor, well then REPUBLICANS there deserve it.
No one FORCED THEM to extort drivers trying to save a few minutes in their commute, and if Republicans in that state weren’t able to foresee that people would be MAD AS HELL about paying $1.00 PER MILE, perhaps Republicans there are simply too OUT OF TOUCH to be governing.