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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: toll roads/bridges
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Date: Tue, 18-Oct-83 12:30:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 18 12:30:26 1983
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The SF Bay toll bridges are a sore spot with me.  I seem to recall it
hitting the news recently that when they were first built (around 1940)
that the toll was promised to be a TEMPORARY measure that would only
be collected until the bridges were paid off.  Well, they were paid off
in about 3 years, but the damn tolls are still being collected.  Seems
politicians are unable to give up a free source of money.

In any case, toll roads seem to be a fixture primarily of the east and
the north.  Some feel toll roads are maintained better than freeways.
This may be true within a small (maintenence) area that has both (e.g.
within one county).  However, in an area with only free roads (e.g.
Columbus, Ohio) the free roads are in a lot better shape than some of
the toll roads I see up north (e.g. the I-80 tollway from Illinois all
the way to the ocean.)