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.
I just can’t wait until Florida excepts the EZ Pass. I have both of them on my car since Florida decided to have their own, but I heard in a year or so they are going to join the EZ Pass. I tell you one thing. You do not even notice the costs anymore with the pass. I guess you get a monthly statement sent to you with EZ Pass but The Sun Pass does not send a statement or I have not seen one.
Sorry man, no lane on any highway is FREE. Period. You pay for those in so many ways. And in so many ways the Highway Fund gets robbed to balance the budget. The taxes collected for roads are one of the biggest scams this government purports on its its citizens.
However to hear someone say a lane, road or whatever else out government, whether local, state or federal, builds constructs and allows to the general public FREE OF CHARGE has the wrong mentality to th issue and I call BS on all those who use the mantra “FREE” when speaking of items from our government. This is the same mentality as the 99% Occupiers continue to have. Wrong attitude.
Nothing in this world is free! Everything has a price/cost and that price/cost is just how much you are willing to pay or how much get ripped out of your hands.
dittos... and you got champing correct!
I love tolls. Let the drivers who drive them pay. I’d like to see the Florida State Police removed from the toll roads and them treated like the Autobahn.
BTW, all my Democrat friends in FL hate the toll roads too. Let somebody else pay, that’s what they say.