Another good reason to shut DC down and move 2000 mi west.
Liberal Democrats in Fairfax County being nickled and dimed by tolls?
Not my problem.
All politicians should be mandated to use the Slug lanes in a clown car.
Wonder what they’re doing with that windfall. Highway robbery is making a comeback.
“don’t you think it’s a scandal
How the people have to pay and pay?
Fight the fare increase, vote for George O’Brian
Get poor Charlie off the MTA!”
You ought to see the Fine Trap I-66 has for those not familiar with the EZ Pass system. Their signs are for shit, esp. at night, and it causes you (and me) to get a $25 ticket for using a road that we’ve used for 40-50 years without any trouble.
At 60 MPH, you can’t safely read the EZ Pass signs and the exists are not lit properly nor signed regarding whether the EZ Pass system is in effect late at night.
The whole Virginia road system, esp. under the Democrats, is nothing but a ripoff of the taxpayers who have already paid for them and maintenance.
Pretty soon, nothing will be free re the main roads. If so, at least give us signs that properly explain how to use them and when the EZ Pass hours are in effect.
Shit, Sunday nights should be “cost FREI”.
Not all the crooks are in DC. Just go 90 miles south to Richmond and you’ll find the best in the state (politics).
I’ve got more respect for a burglar, pickpocket or plain old armed robber. At least you know what they are and what they call themselves. Politicians are nothing but elected thieves despite what they call themselves.
There may be “something rotten in Denmark” but it smells just as rotten if you come to the “Tax-Triangle” of Maryland (all Democrat controlled legislature); DC - almost all Democratic, crooks and fools); and Virginia (Dems are taking control of the state government and have given us such intellectual gems as Sen. Mark Warner, Gov/Sen. Tim “All I Want Is a Brain” Kaine; Gov. Northam, another mental lightweight; and tax and spend state politicians who are wrecking a once great state with their support of illegal aliens, more taxes, and pisspoor planning.
Gonna avoid that area on my trip - a few years ago they had a lot of construction and we got herded into a lane we didn’t want to be in because our lane was closed off - they still had their cameras working though and I got a bill for $40.00 in the mail a few weeks later - w/o ever knowing I had hit an EZ-Pass/Toll lane because there were no signs or even choices available...
All the commuter suburbs can accommodate this by building massive parking garages in their downtowns. As it is, the commuters expect DC to provide parking for the entire metro region every workday, and we're at the end of that game. No more room. The "automobile commute" should not be to downtown; it should be from your front door to your local Metrorail station.
Add new lanes to the existing interstates? What a joke. That's just building wider rush hour parking lots.
Hmmm. I wonder when that Canary Islands volcano is going to slide into the Atlantic? That will make this problem vanish.
Douchenozzles in M class BMWs and gold cufflinks b*tching about a toll? FOAD!
toll roads / hov lanes are for the convenience of the political elite who
are exempt from tolls.
Condensed version: virtue-signaling rent-seeker looking for big payout for his app.
It’s not a tax problem, it’s a spending problem.
A very expensive road that soon no one will be using.
There are people who actually like toll roads.
They must be rich and disconnected from reality.
Tolls.... one of only a few “user” taxes that exist. Use the roads, pay for the roads (and the pensions, politics and the rest of what goes with corrupt government).