RALEIGH, N.C. -- State lawmakers are close to giving final approval to a bill that would allow the first toll road to be built in North Carolina -- and the Triangle area.
Seriously?! Are you kidding me?!? The road that we as taxpayers have already shelled out money to build? We're paying for it again? What is up with that? I've already had a discussion with someone who thought it was a grande idea and thinks that all of I-540, even the parts that have been open since 1997, should be a TOLL ROAD. This brought me to nearly raise my voice and use choice words. Are you kidding me?! It's insane! What a racket, just like the 'lottery is for education,' riiiiiiiiiiight - AKA the governor's 'slush fund!'
Amen to Mayor Meeker who said, "If you put a toll on an existing road that's already paid for, then the public has to pay for it twice: once through gas taxes, once through tolls," Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker said. "And that really is just too much."
--Rant over--
2 comments:
That's crazy! Especially when you consider NC already charges nearly 30 cents a gallon in taxes!!!!
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/columnists/citizen_watchdog/14830958.htm
There is talk of more toll roads for Georgia roadways, too. Get ready to send out letters of opposition to elected leaders!
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