Posted on 04/26/2017 7:18:45 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Uh, just NO.
Wisconsin’s highways are seriously underfunded. …Or maybe they are overfunded and the funds that ought to have been there were absconded by an avaricious public sector bent on subsidizing “refugees” or suchlike.
question — there are gas taxes collected every time we get gas. What is this money being spent on, if not road maintenance as intended???
If there are shortfalls, perhaps we could discuss raising gas taxes, if we really need more dedicated money for road maintenance.
But it seems out of bounds to me, to convert roads to toll roads, to get an additional source of revenue, when we already theoretically have that dedicated revenue in the form of gasoline and diesel fuel taxes.
“Federal law still bans most forms of Interstate tolling.”
I never heard of that. Driving between DC/NY, one encounters tolls in every state, MD, DE, NJ, NY... the toll for bridges/tunnels between NYC/NJ is heavy (ask any commuter). Of course, those tunnels and bridges, except possibly one, preceded the interstate highway system, but I believe were incorporated into it. Maybe because of that they got an exception on tolling?
I always wondered why in driving down I95, say from NY to FL, there are tolls in all the states north of DC, but none south of DC. VA is the first state on that drive that one encounters that doesn’t have tolls on the interstate.
Oh my gosh. Do the road builders ever stop their insatiable quest for tax money? NO WAY!
Sure, set up toll roads and track drivers and never, ever stop bilking the public. Just look at loser Illinois. Their roads suck and their toll roads were supposed to be temporary, now it’s just an ongoing state/union scam.
Go away!
Banning the word “underfunded” needs to be moved-up on our To Do List.
“underfunded”?
Where the hell is all the money that was supposed to go to them?
I drive from NY to Ohio every week- as soon as I hit NY it’s “Welcome to NY, that’ll be $3.15 please” (each way)
Nothing in PA, nothing in Ohio... and their roads are fine.
I worked at a spot where I could see a tool booth out the window once. After the morning rush, there were no cars. So a quick calculation showed they were having a toll booth there for the purpose of paying a toll-taker...
THIS IS A LOSS OF WEALTH.
News to me. I405 variable tolling is in place here in WA The toll lane is the HOV lane. Pretty sure there are others.
Jim Doyle gave at least a billion dollars of highway money to the schools.
“So a quick calculation showed they were having a toll booth there for the purpose of paying a toll-taker...”
Similar to my conversation with a receptionist at a NYS Office Of the Aging re my elderly mother. I asked, “Why doesn’t NY lower taxes so retiring children can afford to live here and care for their elderly parents? That way you wouldn’t be so overworked.”
She said, “Oh, the office isn’t here to help the people. It’s here to hire employees to work here.”
I was speechless, and realized she was telling the truth. Later I found out she had only been there a week and she wasn’t supposed to actually blurt out the truth.
Current toll facilities Washington currently has four toll facilities:
Earlier toll roads were grandfathered into the Interstate Highway system.
Federal law does allow new toll lanes to be built on existing federal highways. HOV lanes can also be converted to toll lanes, as happened with the reversible I-95 HOV lanes in northern Virginia. The same thing is happening or about to happen to the ones on I-395 up to the Pentagon.
In political speak, telling the truth is known as a gaffe.
The word does have its uses; to wit-
Bernie Madoff was underfunded.
It would be great if many of the new roads were privately funded. Then charge tolls for profit. No problem with that.
“question — there are gas taxes collected every time we get gas. What is this money being spent on, if not road maintenance as intended?”
I once did design work on rehabbing an old railroad station into a museum...it had federal highway funding.
That’s just a small example...but you are only limited by your imagination when it comes to wasted highway money.
Because that's the CommieWannaBe Corridor!
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