Toll roads
Hello, we are first time RV'ers doing a long distance trip to the coast of Maine from Wisconsin. We have been out locally in our 38ft. class A RV but never cross country. Our question concerns the Tol...
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ohhell10339 wrote:
Getting socked for forty or fifty bucks just to drive on a freeway--when I am already paying gas taxes--would make me want to march on the state capitol with a flaming torch.
Tolls and gas taxes aren't exactly fungible.
Tolls got to the toll authority (usually a chartered entity separate from the state government), and pay for construction bonds and tollway operation and maintenance.
Gas taxes go to federal and state accounts. Past taxes (plus federal borrowing) paid for the freeway construction (but usually not tollway construction).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_toll_roads_in_the_United_States
According to this Montana is one of the states that never has had toll roads. I suppose that's a good excuse for not knowing how they operate. :) But aren't the entrance fees to Yellowstone a toll?
Oregon doesn't currently have any either, but I've driven part of a former toll road, Barlow Road. I quit after a mile or so; it was too rough for my cute-ute. We did, though, spend a nice night camping by a steam nearby.
