Demon Rat governor of Virginia, Terry Mcawful, is worth $30,000,000. So this increase in the tolls won't bother him.
Nice move, Virginia.
This HAS to be considered price gouging at its worst.
Another fraud by the left, joined in by crony capitalists, for which too often the right has fallen, forgetting the conditions necessary for free market efficiencies.
Lemme get this right. The slower it’s going the more they charge. That’s communism.
Here’s one for you, Tol.
For you Libertarian-leaning weanies that JUST LOVE privatization of the highways by Crony Capitalists, please note the the following giveaway here:
“The company said there is no cap on the toll and the prices will fluctuate based on the real-time traffic demand.”
By the way, the politicians that give away our highways, of course, don’t have to pay these tolls - they’re always exempted.
Taxes to build it. Taxed to use it. Taxed to pay the exorbitant pensions for those who you paid. Nice work if you can get it. NFL. “NOT FOR LONG”!
Rural farmers would cultivate a mudhole in a dirt road, then charge exorbitant fees to extract stuck wagons.
Transurban manages and develops urban toll road networks in Australia and North America. It is a Top 20 company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and has been in business since 1996.
So crony capitalism thrives in Australia as well.
Time to revive an old word: Highwaymen. They laid in wait for travelers and robbed them. This is no different. That it’s DC Bubblecrats adds a nice Robin Hood touch, but still, it is what it is. Robbery, almost rising to the level of ransom. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch, but it’s coming to a town near you if it’s not nipped in the bud and right now. Those roads were paid for with taxes upon you and me, maintained via taxes upon you and me. Sold to some foreign interest, but where did the profit go? Not to you and me, but we’ll get to pay the freight for whatever they decide to charge, to drive on the roads that we built. You can’t tell me we’re not being treated as a conquered people.
Demon Rat governor of Virginia, Terry Mcawful, is worth $30,000,000. So this increase in the tolls won't bother him.
Nice move, Virginia.
Totally out of control. But, seriously, what can anyone do?
wonder what an investigation of the percentage of graft, payola and corruption these toll take?
Government sanctioned monopolies be like that. Pay that troll if you want to use the roads your tax dollars built.
Demand pricing is a beautiful thing! Priorities get prioritized real quick.
Some of Trump’s team are pushing more private roads like this as part of Trump’s infrastructure package.
Bogus!
I thought towns were formed in the begging of civilization to stop highway robbery, we certainly have been fundamentally changed.
What is it about Muslims that makes them want to live in the 7th century?
Makes me glad I live in a toll-free zone.
I remember my dear departed mother telling me about the Pennsylvania Turnpike getting started with a whopper of a lie, telling everyone that it would only cost money for a while until it was paid for. Then it’ll be free.
She didn’t object to things having a cost, but she could smell a lying rat a mile away.
NJ was the first state to have toll highways. Here’s how it worked. The tolls were only supposed to pay back the construction bonds. When the bonds were paid back, it was for maintenance(and patronage of overpaid toll collectors who just happened to be politically connected). Then they started taking money from the tolls for the general budget to cover shortfalls. At that point, it just becomes another form of government theft to pay for all the waste and corruption in every corner of the state government.
I would advise people not to allow toll roads to come to their state, no matter what “conservative” arguments there are for it. It will become a permanent tax and lower your quality of life. Don’t think GOP politicians will make this idea work better than the Dems.
Think about it. $30 to drive a section of what should be FREE roadway.
That’s $60 round trip for work. Hope drivers earned enough that day to cover the toll.