Elimination of Tolls, Pay & HOV Lanes on Public Roadways

Elimination of Tolls, Pay & HOV Lanes on Public Roadways - Jake - 04-19-2023

This item should technically be under the "phasing out taxes" post but I would like a separate thread to get the blood pumping.

Toll Roads and Pay Lanes are basically highway robbery…double taxation, doubling over our roadway maintenance.

Allocating money away from roadwork to pay the way for a select few privateers is unforgivable and is reflected by the degradation of the roadways and the poorer design features of toll roads ultimately inconducive to less traffic.

Lets face it, the toll roads in our major cities have been there for a long time now, and our roadways all share the same story: dilapidated and basically falling apart, and very unsightly.

Proof positive that those funds have not been used properly, which must come to a screeching halt!

HOV lanes are the same thing it could be easily argued that HOV lanes are unconstitutional because they decrease the overall per capita occupancy of vehicles in general by contributing to more highway deaths than if they were removed. In many places the removal of the HOV lane would allow for perhaps two more lanes of highway...but more logically could be a safety lane next to each opposing fast lane where there is not one when there is only one HOV lane. In the long run, the decrease in traffic jams and salvation of permanent inquires, death and costs of accidents would far exceed the simple effects of saving carbon and fuel on carpooling.

We look like suckers.