🚀 go-pugleaf

Walt Horning <whorning@pipeline.com> wrote:
: Was up around Wilmington, Delaware today. Going the opposite
: direction, was about a 10-mile backup at the toll booths.

: The politicians are total fucking assholes for letting this happen.

: The tolls also could be collected one-way, since most people make
: round-trips, thus cutting out 50% of stop-and-go traffic, cutting
: salaries (fewer employees needed) and thus paying off costs sooner.
: It also cuts air pollution and saves gas. It also reduces vehicle
: wear-and-tear.

: What I want to know is why a penny or two of tax dollars on gas or
: property or income would not eliminate these tolls altogether? We all
: use interstates, and most are free. Why shouldn't they all be "free"?

: I guess the Politicians lack back-bone.

So what else is new?  There are continuous toll roads, all Interstates,
between here and Chicago: the Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana Turnpikes,
plus a bunch of others around Chicago.  They've been there ever since the
Interstates were built and the tolls used to be nominal.  Now the tolls
are about three times what they used to be and there are also long backups
at the toll booths.  Westbound I used them, but I avoided them coming
east.  It isn't that politicians lack backbone.  Those things must be
making money.  I hate to see it, too. 

-- 
Kenneth T. Cornelius  
kencorn@clark.net