Now, adding tolls to current Interstates is another matter”””
Here is another thought:
California took all the toll collectors off the Golden Gate bridge. You have to have a prepaid toll account with authorities, or you have to find a place in San Fran where you can buy passage if you are a tourist, or whatever.
IF you go thru without paying, the cameras will collect enough information to BILL you—with lots of add ons for the costs. Even rental cars are involved in this.
IF they try to make us pay tolls on the Interstates, will they be building toll booths? I don’t think so. They will install a camera system. How would one pay in advance for such travel? It will be worse thanObamacare.
AND -—THEY WILL HAVE COMPLETE INFORMATION ABOUT ALL OF OUR TRAVELS.
Collecting ‘tolls’ is just a smoke & mirrors cover for knowing where we all travel, since many of us do NOT have GPS in our vehicles.
They could install camera systems on “free” interstates too.
Ideally, the toll roads ought to be private concerns. But this is not the kind of government we have in DC that’s friendly to that. The interstate system should have never been a public works project.