$100 million in annual toll fines put citizens on road to ‘toll bankruptcy’

The Maryland Reporter ^ | February 7, 2017 | Dan Menefee

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[Mouton]

You got to pay the sheriff of Nottingham if you wish to go through the king’s forest, it is how these petty criminal bureaucrats see their fiefdoms.

[moovova]

"Momma Toll Me Not To Come"

https://youtu.be/rKaQzQAlNn4"

[dfwgator]

"Somebody's gonna have to go back and get a s---load of dimes."

[cyclotic]

What a ridiculously complex system. The MTA sends a stamped letter to collect a $3 toll and depends on the USPS both ways, otherwise, they just throw on a fine that is insanely high.

I wonder how Manno voted when the system was proposed.

I also wonder if the ICC and the silly express lanes on I-95 in Baltimore County are pulling in the expected level of revenue. I highly doubt it.

[bert]

There is such toll road in the Raleigh Durham area. I got on it not knowing what it was nor how it worked.

A photo was made of my license plate and many weeks later I got a toll bill for $0.43. The postage was $0. 41 for the bill and my return of the payment charged to my mastercard.

[fruser1]

I have no interest in acquiring a nazi-pass account.

[drpix]

This Manno clown, who worked for the infamously lying fool Sheila Jackson Lee, tells us a "penalty... was not intended to be punitive."

Is there no limit to the ignorance and/or dishonesty of these Democrats?

[ml/nj]

But all the other taxes are fine.

ML/NJ

[Gaffer]

Toll roads are like taxes; they are FOREVER.

[HLPhat]

What’s really pathetic is when this “public” infrastructure is paid for with tax money, underwritten with municipal bonds.. and owned by foreigners.

Commerce between master and slave is ______?

[wright2bear]

On 95 south here in Va, I’ve seen it as much as $30 just to go 10-15 miles, when the main lines are backed up....like Holiday travel.

[hal ogen]

Having "lived" in monkey county maryland for 30+ years before escaping the LIB lunacy there, I can attest that this situation is merely the tip of the iceberg. maryland is truly THE Freak state. It is hopeless there. Escape while you can.

[HLPhat]

Kinda different from the interstate system Eisenhower built for his fellow Americans, isn’t it?

Follow the yellow brick Rhode to...

“Toll road backer hires Halliburton subsidiary”

http://m.gazette.com/toll-road-backer-hires-halliburton-subsidiary/article/18581

...Military Industrial Toll-roads-R-Us.

[HLPhat]

Unfortunately that’s not the only locale where these predators are inflicting their bidness model.

[thulldud]

“I don’t want to minimize the pain that certain customers have gone through, but running the numbers only .001% wound up in a circumstance” like this, said Kevin Reigrut, MDTA’s new executive director. He said 99.3% of Maryland toll customers are paying their tolls without incident.

So, such a small percentage of people affected does not warrant a change in the law?

Got it.

Wait, does that remind me of something?

[oincobx]

Be prepared for more toll roads. Trump’s infrastructure program provides tax credits for public private partnerships (P3s). The private sector provides the financing and construction in return for a revenue stream down the road.

[ReaganGeneration2]

Gas taxes are supposed to be the “user fees” for gov’t-run roads, but aren’t enough to feed the Leviathan

[CincyRichieRich]

These are the temporary toll booths, right, because tolls were always meant as temporary fixes?