The Road to Ruin blog has the scoop on an important transportation story. Former Gov. Gerald Baliles has proposed a network of tolling stations on Virginia Interstates that could raise $1 billion a year to fund maintenance and improvements. Read the details here.
Baliles Proposes $1 Billion Toll Road Plan
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While I don’t know the specifics of this proposal, I think toll roads are a great way to help pay for our transportation needs.
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I think its a terrible idea. I would have to see where exactly they want tolls, but they are almost always a bad idea. It discorages people from using those roads and it just congests others, or out of state trafiic doesn’t come through at all.
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1. Discouraging people from using roads = a good thing
2. Out of state traffic going elsewhere = a good thing
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Paul, our economy is hugely dependent on people using roads. We can only discourage people from using roads at an enormous cost to the economy. On the surface discouraging travel might seem fine, but it will eventually result in reverting to the days of no fresh vegetables in winter. is that a price we want to pay before we have to?
Anyway, we may as well institute the toll system now, because all federal dollars for roads are going to be diverted to the gulf coast for years to come.
I can’t wait to hear EMR’s spin on how Katrina was the result of dysfunctional patterns of human settlement. He will be partially right, of course, but Mark Twain wrote about the futility of levies long ago. Destroying the wetlands has been decried for years. Federally subsidised flood insurance made many of the homes that have been destroyed possible to begin with. Tonight an engineer said flat out that the reason the levies were not more substantial was that it wasn;t worth the cost.
There is going to be plenty of blame to go around. I think we should begin a flood plain national park: if you get flooded out, the government buys your land and you go elsewhere.
Instead, what do you think will happen? One of the first things will be to repair the roads.
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History repeats…
Baliles + Transportation = Higher State Taxes
~ the blue dog
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Well, Steve, which of these happens more often, in your opinion:
1) you’re chatting with your friends and you start bragging about how low Virginia’s taxes are.
2) you’re chatting with your friends and someone goes on a rant about how they sat in traffic for an hour on the beltway.
I think we have to re-evaluate our priorities. Low-taxes are great, but they don’t get me to work any faster. I’d pay another $300 bucks a year if you told me it would cut 10 minutes off my daily commute.
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