Tolls and other bs!

Short answer, lifes not fair, and its at the least technically legal, if a bit murky on the front of doubly taxing people.


Longer answer. Maintenance takes money, roads BUILT with federal dollars attached arent neccessarily allocated the correct amount to keep them maintained, and frequently the federal funding for building wipes out a chance of using federal funds to maintain them. In some ways a toll makes sense, as it ostensibly provides a use tax, use the road, you pay for it, dont use it, you dont pay for it.


Other realistic longer answer, places like pa mismanage things so horribly that not only are their tolls the highest per mile that exist, but theyre also poorly thought out and dont neccessarily provide any benefit to the user, despite being faster and less miles, it is in almost every case a better choice to use alternate worse maintained and harder to get through routes.
Whereas some places are far better maintained while still even being relatively cheap to traverse (ohio) despite having pretty easy bypasses or alternate routes that dont actually suck more miles or time.
And life still aint fair

 

That is a textbook definition of a non-sequitor if Ive ever seen one.

Shoo young (or old) gadfly, your name is obviously an inaccurate description.

 

WTF…..