50% of Toll Revenue Goes Elsewhere...Imagine That!

Along with 50% of the rest of the "road tax" we pay?

 

I thought that was known years ago about the wrongful use. Anytime someone says tolls are the answer, I use the George Washington Bridge as an example.

Rhode Island is another fine example. Publicly announce you used the money for everything other than roads, so now truck only tolls are the answer.

Sadly we increase our rates and either our customer has less of a profit margin or it gets passed to the consumer.

 

If only the cars stopped using them.

 

It’s not a toll, it’s a tax..

 

Meh, at least a tax goes toward public spending. Some of these toll roads are a semi private business. Which is why you have roads crumbling while a handful of board members make multimillion salaries.

I seem to recall the Detroit/Windsor bridge is 100% owned by the family of the guy who built it. Completely unaccountable to anyone.

 

GWB used to be like 12.00 for a semi in my day. Then another few tollgates before new england. (Those are gone)

We would cross the tappan zee or the newburgh for free or less cost other than the first three hills after newburgh in fuel eastbound.

Now that the GWB is 110 or something odd dollars, it will be 200 after I am dead and gone. Oh well. Rates will be 5.00 a mile by then with drivers making .50 a mile. HA... //snarky.

 

My dad was a Jersey boy and my mom was from NY. Dad would often tell me if the tolls were this high in the 60's I'd have never been born. (And he would say that in the 80's!)