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Offline thundley4

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More Toll Roads Likely in US Future
« on: November 05, 2008, 08:50:26 PM »
From the very bottom of the article. Obama strikes.
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"I think Mayor Bloomberg's proposal for congestion pricing is a thoughtful and innovative approach to the problem," Obama told WNYC radio in March. "The basic notion that we should do what we can to reduce congestion, to reduce pollution, to reduce consumption of foreign oil and to then to reinvest dollars into our infrastructure in mass transit."
Tolls

Get on the bus and outta your cars.
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Re: More Toll Roads Likely in US Future
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2008, 11:04:39 PM »
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Re: More Toll Roads Likely in US Future
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2008, 11:11:36 PM »
Works for me.  I am willing to pay for elite status on the highway as I do now for elite status on airlines and hotels.

Thanks, fuhrer, for implementing Ubervolks elitism.  I am in.
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Re: More Toll Roads Likely in US Future
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2008, 06:35:42 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on November 05, 2008, 11:11:36 PM
Works for me.  I am willing to pay for elite status on the highway as I do now for elite status on airlines and hotels.

Thanks, fuhrer, for implementing Ubervolks elitism.  I am in.

That's all well and good but he's going to make you evil rich pay the toll for the 6 DUmmies in rattle-traps and the 2 Mexican mini-buses behind you.
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Re: More Toll Roads Likely in US Future
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2008, 07:40:07 AM »
toll roads are the answer to traffic that government cant fix. 
thing is, they need to be PRIVATE roads, not just punitive taxation.
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Re: More Toll Roads Likely in US Future
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2008, 07:56:18 AM »
I've read before that toll roads may become a necessity, just to raise revenues for the highway fund. It's either that or raise the gas taxes.
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Re: More Toll Roads Likely in US Future
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2008, 09:13:45 AM »
NYC has had an anti-congestion toll structure for a very long time, long before Bloomberg.  I started having to travel there regularly when Dinkins was mayor and even then the bridges and tunnels all charged a hefty fee to enter but leaving was free.  I don't know when they started that, but the Verrazano Narrows bridge (newest of the routes) had obviously been constructed with the intent of charging tolls in both directions.

I have no problem with it at all, honestly, in fact one-way tolls cut the tollbooth congestion in half.
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Re: More Toll Roads Likely in US Future
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2008, 11:25:38 PM »
Ahhhh hello, excuse me here. How can you have toll roads when no ones going to be able to buy gas after Barry the Ears raises taxes?
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