Jeff
05-02-2014, 06:37 AM
OK so it looks like it is going to cost even more money to travel. I thought back when Obama had promised the stimulus was going to take care of the infrastructure, yes we where going to have new roads and it was going to make work for America, now a few short years later we find out that the Highway Trust fun is about to go broke. That makes me wonder where did the stimulus money go ? But we have seen how well these tolls work, one has to look no further than the GW Bridge in NY, that bridge collects so much money every day but yet is still maintained like 5 year old are in charge, so yes all this means is someone or some will get very rich and like the stimulus money the toll money will just disappear ( go into some crooked politicians pocket )
The cost of driving and basic travel across America is about to go up. As part of the proposed $302 billion White House Transportation bill called the GROW AMERICA Act (http://freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DOT_surface_reauth-FINAL.pdf), the Obama Administration just reversed a long-standing federal prohibition allowing states to collect tolls on pre-existing, otherwise free interstate highways:
Though some older segments of the network — notably the Pennsylvania and New Jersey turnpikes and Interstate 95 in Maryland and Interstate 495 in Virginia — are toll roads, most of the 46,876-mile system has been toll-free.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/05/obama-proposes-allow-states-collect-tolls-interstate-highway/
The cost of driving and basic travel across America is about to go up. As part of the proposed $302 billion White House Transportation bill called the GROW AMERICA Act (http://freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DOT_surface_reauth-FINAL.pdf), the Obama Administration just reversed a long-standing federal prohibition allowing states to collect tolls on pre-existing, otherwise free interstate highways:
Though some older segments of the network — notably the Pennsylvania and New Jersey turnpikes and Interstate 95 in Maryland and Interstate 495 in Virginia — are toll roads, most of the 46,876-mile system has been toll-free.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/05/obama-proposes-allow-states-collect-tolls-interstate-highway/