What a timely thread! (Even if this is a little off base, it does relate to tolls.)
Anyone wanna guess what travel is going to cost in our future? I mean, even without the bloated fuel prices.
The nation, (state-by-state,) is selling off our highways to foreigners. While the elected folks refuse to cease and desist making unnecessary highways to their lobbyists’ and other friends’ getaways, they have been slighting maintenance and repair on the existing highways and road infrastructure.
One opinion:
http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfin...6/07/toll.html
Another source I mustered up through Google was:
http://www.theeagle.com/stories/0716...0060716055.php
And the headline on this one says it all. It hypes the same people who have been greedily and fraudulently driving up fuel pump prices,
AND they love NAFTA:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15839
There was an article in this morning’s Dothan [Alabama] Eagle that isn’t on their website. It went on to say how the Chicago “Skyway” is also owned by the company that owns the Indiana Toll Road. And it also said that such companies aren’t as “afraid” to raise tolls as are politicians.
I suspect we’ll be seeing many more roads being sold. And tolls being raised. And the money being siphoned off to foreign soil, just like the many money/jobs lost to other political wheelings and dealings like NAFTA.
We have met the enemy, and he is OUR POLITICIANS!
Steve