Electile Dysfunction (Current students plz look!)

[Ken]

They are actually from Spain... at least the 495/I66 hotlanes are.

Isn't Transurban Australian? Unless they're owned by some Spanish company.

https://www.transurban.com/roads-and-pro...th-america

i'll have to look through my emails... maybe it was the construction crew and/or the actual tolling infrastructure. I know it wasnt from the good ol' USA... my uncle in Turkey was like "how the hell are you guys letting this happen!?!?"

I ask him the same stuff about his president

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Having a trucking registration fee/passenger registration fee built into our current registrations, or through gas tax is a far more effective and less costly way to tax those using roads.  

 

I am 100% against a gasoline tax for this purpose. The issue isn't people who live on the I-81 corridor, it's the 11 million tractor trailers per year traveling through Virginia on their way to god-knows-where.

A gasoline tax does not impact them. You can fill up wherever diesel is cheap and drive straight through Virginia without stopping. A toll means you don't pay unless you use the road, and an electronic-only toll is pretty inexpensive to implement. A gas tax means the least-offenders, yet greatest-sufferers pay the largest burden. Bullshit, no thank you.

I'm with you on this. but i think we need to adopt the NYC model (what did i just say?)... do you think locals pay all the tolls around that city? at worse they pay a very discounted toll (25 cents vs. $11). free for the people around I81, make the trucks pay!

with this $30 annual fee... they are still trying to get blood out of a stone. I will probably have to buy my inlaws a pass for christmas every year lol.

...What? Is there a discount i am not aware of that makes me pay less for the Holland/Lincoln Tunnel and/or George Washington bridge? 

If you're talking about the Thurway plan(s) which offer some discounts, it is decidedly not 25 cents vs. 11 dollars. More like 28 cents vs. 1 Dollar.  EZ-Pass discounts site.

maybe they have gotten rid of them... its been a while since that was a part of my life. my recollection was the biggest discount was on the verrazano. 

either way... there is a huge discount. I'm against an annual fee or a fee for residence when their concerns and requests for upgrades have everything to do with interstate travel from trucks. SO... as initially proposed, let the trucks pay for it not the residence.

I edited after, i was little bit triggered by the thought of THAT much a discount.

Staten Island residents get a bit more on Verrazzano. It's still $5.50 vs $17 - not sure i qualify that as a huge discount. That's only on that bridge as well.