I am against all tolls.
There should not be hiding taxes that way.
There should be 1 Federal tax, 1 State, and 1 local/county tax.
And they shouldn't be taken out of paychecks automatically. People should have to pay them each month, that way they can see what they are REALLY paying.
Tolls, fees, licenses, etc are just ways to hide how much you're paying.
Really curious to see how the plate camera, "mail you a bill" scheme works out. What happens to out of staters who don't realize what they've gotten and pitch it as junk mail?
I wonder what rental car places are going to charge rental customers?
I had a friend that went to Italy to get married. He ran a redlight or got a speeding ticket or something over there...via a camera system. About a year later he got a ginormous bill from Italy saying 'if you don't pay it, you could be arrested upon return' or something like that. I think it was several hundred dollars.
They tracked him down via plate number and who had it rented.
I suspect it'll be the same here.
I wonder what rental car places are going to charge rental customers?
I had a friend that went to Italy to get married. He ran a redlight or got a speeding ticket or something over there...via a camera system. About a year later he got a ginormous bill from Italy saying 'if you don't pay it, you could be arrested upon return' or something like that. I think it was several hundred dollars.
They tracked him down via plate number and who had it rented.
I suspect it'll be the same here.
Yeah, I remember some of that. I wonder if they were connected with the 86-64 nutters who sought to tear out I-64 from Sherman Minton to I-65, because they wanted a greenway all along the river.What pisses me off is the 40 trip discount, what if you only work four day weeks or take a day or two off or a few sick days? Then your bill damn near doubles unless you waste gas and time making an extra trip or two.
What pisses me off even more is the fact that the congresswoman from Louisville area a while ago, Anne Northrup had funding setup for bridge construction but the *******s in the east end kept fighting it with lawsuits and court filings for every outrageous thing they could think of to stop it. Then they got some damn house and piece of land declared historic thinking that would stop things. They dug a tunnel under the damn thing which made it cost even more...
RiverFields is one of the organizations and I swear to this day, if I ever meet some of those people, I will kick them square in the nuts just out of principle. I lived through the Sherman Minton shutdown (live in Jeffersonville and work at the airport), went into work before 0600 and tried to leave early and each trip still took over an hour at very best. Usually 1-1/2 hour each way. I used to amuse myself calling and leaving obscene and disgusting messages (full of every curse word I ever learned in the AF and as an aircraft mechanic) on their voice mail system about once a week.
Ah yes, RiverFields and their $400M+ east end tunnel...
For some weird reason people put up with tolls and don't throw the rascals out of office. Why I don't know.
Personally I will avoid paying tolls whenever and where ever possibly. The GPS navigation settings can be set to avoid tolls and I have used the feature repeatedly, especially in the more corrupted parts of the US on the eastern seaboard.
My biggest problem with it is the cost of the toll, which was largely driven by the added cost of tunneling under the "historic " house. If it weren't for that, the tolls might have been more reasonable.