Tolls

bigred1cav wrote:
Where may I find verification of your assertions the current administration made this decision? Wouldn't it take a change in law, by the Congress to change how states are compensated for repairs and upkeep of Interstates?

How would highways be maintained without taxes? Hasn't the USA suffered enough tax cuts and sending costs back to state and local tax payers? Doesn't a National Road System equitably require National Financing?

Aside from the questions this is the fact: The Obama administration on Tuesday submitted to Congress a $302 billion, four-year surface transportation bill meant to avert a possible summer shutdown of federally funded projects.

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx says inaction on what the administration calls the GROW AMERICA Act could have wide-ranging impact.

"As soon as August, the Highway Trust Fund could run dry," Foxx wrote Tuesday on the Department of Transportation's blog. "States are already canceling or delaying projects. That means crucial road improvements won't get done. It means transportation construction companies won't get contracts. And it means workers won't have job sites." http://www.cbsnews.com/news/are-more-toll-roads-in-americas-future/

Fox News spins it to be our presidents fault, it isn't it is the tax cutting Congress giving to the rich and taking from all else.

RGar974417 wrote:
A few weeks back,I posted about the current administration allowing states to toll interstates.Many on here said oh yeah,I'd be in favor of this if it made our roads better.Well,since then,we went to Missouri.From Lebanon,Pa to New Stanton,Pa, a distance of 201 miles,we paid over $30.00 in tolls on the Pa Turnpike.Some sections were very good,other sections were terrible.We continued on I 70.Most of it was very good,in fact better than the much of tolled Pa turnpike. The big exception was eastern Indiana which was terrible.On the way back we took I 64 to I 71 to I70 to avoid eastern Indiana.If we had paid tolls for the whole trip,based on what the tolls are on the Pa turnpike,it would have cost us $240 just in tolls.Still think it's a good idea?