There’s a toll road in Tampa. Its maybe 30 miles long and they collect in excess of $100 Million every single year.
I know roads are expensive but they aren’t that expensive.
Considering the fact that the Gulf has been shutdown & all the other restrictions on drilling everywhere else.
Just one bad winter or larger Middle East problems will drive oil above $100/barrel or $4/gal gas or home heating oil.
This is when the economy will really go south.
“There’s a toll road in Tampa. Its maybe 30 miles long and they collect in excess of $100 Million every single year.
I know roads are expensive but they aren’t that expensive.”
That is EXACTLY the problem conveniently overlooked by tolling backers - maintaining a freeway costs next to nothing (per vehicle mile) - expanding it does cost money, putting in a tolling system and an army of toll collectors, accountants, and administrators cost money (quite a bit), and running it as a MONOPOLY to squeeze out as much taxpayer money as possible costs a ton of money (but doesn’t seem to bother governors Perry and Daniels).
But even so, there are still the libertarian air heads on this site that think having a foreign-owned highway, able to charge tolls as high as the market will bear, with MONOPOLY protection, is just fine.
...so I have to keep posting when this topic comes up.