COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS ___________?
Posted on 02/27/2017 5:19:00 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ass.... Malloy is working on bringing them back to connecticut.
I drive on I-95 to and from work every day. I have used the express probably less then once a month, only when traffic is very bad. And by the looks of it, I am not the only person to do the same thing.
I think the ICC is pulling in expected revenue, but that’s far from enough to pay off the bonds. Hence, the toll increases elsewhere on the system, reduced somewhat by Governor Hogan.
Toll increases were for other capital projects on the system as well.
Sounds like NY too
Eisenhower’s original intent was for interstate highways to have tolls, but Congress had other ideas, and Eisenhower ultimately accepted the gas tax method of funding.
I commuted from Aberdeen to Baltimore during most of the building of this monstrosity. About as soon as it opened, I began working from home and missed out on the commute.
But, I can’t tell you how many times at all different times of day, I’ll track a car that got on the express lanes. He’s usually still in sight, sometimes in my mirror when he re-joins regular traffic.
Tolls for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge were originally intended to be temporary, but they are basically permanent.
Cocoa Beach area had a $0.25 toll on a stretch of the Bee Line going to Orlando, from the Space Center. When the life of the toll was done, the bond for road was paid for, the bureaucrats did not remove the toll right away. They collected for another year to pay for removing the toll booth.
Eisenhower’s original intent was for interstate highways to have tolls,
Eisenhower's "original intent" can be read here...
"The Governor's Conference and the President's Advisory Committee are agreed that the Federal share of the needed construction program should be about 30 percent of the toal, leaving to State and local units responsibility to finance the reamaineder...
...Financing of interstate and Federal-aid systems should be based on the planned use of increasing revenues from present gas and diesel oil taxes, augmented in limited instances with tolls"
Message to the Congress regarding highways, February 22, 1955 [White House Office, Office of the Press Secretary to the President, Box 4, Press Releases Feb. 8-March 14, 1955; NAID #16857605]
It appears it was congress who wanted toll roads...
Who created the Interstate System?
The concept of an Interstate system as we know it was first described in a 1939 report to Congress called Toll Roads and Free Roads. The report rejected the toll superhighway network Congress had suggested; revenue from tolls on most segments would not support the bonds issued for their construction. However, the report added that the country needed a toll-free express highway network.
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Through the remainder of his years as President, he searched for ways to solve the problems that plagued the program in its early years and pushed for continued work on the Interstate System. His leadership in promoting the 1956 Act and moving the program forward on schedule has earned President Eisenhower the title "Father of the Interstate System."
Limited Instances - not the predatory "bidness as usual" model being inflicted today... “Toll road backer hires Halliburton subsidiary” http://m.gazette.com/toll-road-backer-hires-halliburton-subsidiary/article/18581
Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech
Origins and Significance
And that is one of about three reasons why I take I-81 (sixty miles extra) rather than I-95 when driving from Georgia to Connecticut...minimize time and tolls in Maryland. The other two reasons are New Jersey and NYC.
Over 11 years ago, while my wife and I were traveling around the country deciding where we wanted to move to, we had our mail forwarded to my brother in MD. For about 8 weeks he would box it up once a week and UPS it to us where ever we were.
Fast forward after we had been living in another state for a year or two. We get a letter from the Freak State demanding that we pay state income tax for the year in which those 8 weeks occurred if we couldn’t prove we weren’t living there. MD didn’t think it had to prove we were living there.
I responded appropriately and received confirmation from MD that the issue was settled. Now, 10 years later I still have a file saved on the whole matter because I know some paper pusher could dig out the file and claim we owe them money...start it up all over again.
I wonder who the MTA lobbyist spent time and money with The right to due process is not provided here in any way. It should be unconstitutional.
COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS ___________?
Never understood tolls, unfortunately thenorthern horror taxation is now everywhere. It’s like taking your liter sofa back to the store everyday to pay for it again. Tolls are not being used for anything more than union pensions and govt shell games. We are all Living in taxachusetts. Liberal money laundering. Let’s take a failed policy and do it again.
Tolls - because the Democrats stole all the money you already paid in taxes to build the road.
The problem with the express lanes is that they don’t go far enough. Heading south, you’re dumped back into general traffic before the Fort McHenry Tunnel bottleneck. And going north, yeah it helps if you’re going to White Marsh, but otherwise you’re dumped back into general traffic well before you get to Bel Air.
The solution, at least on the south end, would have been to add two tunnel tubes and four lanes of traffic (two each way) from the tunnel down to I-395. But since it would probably be cheaper to establish colonies on Mars than it would be to build all that, a cheaper solution would have been to have one of the tunnel tubes be reversible, and have reversible lanes from there down to I-395. So, in the morning, you’d have a total of 4 general lanes plus 2 express lanes going south, and 2 general lanes going north; reverse that in the afternoon.
An added bonus of this would be that you could have both outbound lanes of I-395 to I-95 south continue through (in the afternoon) instead of having them merge into one lane, thus causing backups on I-395. (I.e. 2 general lanes on I-95 going south before I-395, plus the 2 lanes from I-395 heading to south I-95, joining together to form 4 lanes of I-95, which is what you have now.)
Yeah, I know, it all makes too much sense; so it’ll never happen.
Another reason why I’m glad got my EZ Pass transponder from Penn DOT.
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