Posted on 08/23/2007 1:55:20 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Throwing the taxpayers money into another rathole isn’t the answer. Despite the glowing list, you know and I know that money is going to the third world savages in Philly and Pittsburgh.
Looking forward to the day when I can vote with my feet.
Doesn’t sound good at all.
SEPTA Slush Fund Alert!
You beat me to it so I just posted #3.
Gee, just less than half goes to the Socialist cesspools that now pretty much control Pa politics. Great job.
PING!
I'm from Maryland, by the way, but I take an interest in road-related issues in the US. Good luck on your pending exodus from PA.
Thought the Interstate was federally controlled ....
The last 3 federal transportation acts make this perfectly legal. It’s the wave of the future.
Do Ohio and Indiana take money generated from the I-80 tolls and give it to local communities for their public transit systems?
Indiana sold (long term lease)their toll road.
No, the Interstate system is owned by the states, DC, and Puerto Rico (There are three unsigned interstates in PR). Federal money is granted to the states to build a portion of it (Chargeable interstates), other portions are built out of state funds only (non-chargeable interstates).
The US government owns one bridge in Washington, DC only.
Aside from a few notable exceptions (Interstate 99, the Bud Shuster vanity road) the designation of roads in the system is controlled by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).
Yes, I’m a Road Geek.
Indiana still owns the road, they hired someone else to maintain and operate it for the next 50 years.
Wow! a 25% increase on the most expensive road in the nation. This state is beyond comprehension. These roads need to be boycotted!
If I remember my history (but sure it has changed) President Eisenhower initiated the Interstate system based on what he saw in Germany after WWII ... so now I guess it’s the states that control it and can do what they want which I think is not what he had intended ....
“inflation proof” should read....”and we will charge more and more each each as we see fit to keep our coffers full”.....
Not that I know of. The claim is that I-80 tolls in PA will be spend on I-80 and surrounding roads, anyhow.
It’s actually a 75-year lease.
There's apparently another oddball-numbered interstate being considered: Interstate 3 (named after 3rd Infantry Division, IIRC). It will run from Savannah, GA to near Knoxville, TN. There is already opposition growing (because if it's built, we're doooooooooooooooooooomed).
But I-3 is not written into legislation, unlike the Infamous I-99. If it gets built it might be a Southern I-93 or I-87 which would fit into the grid and be approved by AASHTO.
I’m not rational when it comes to I-99 and don’t even get me started on I-238...
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