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Do you laugh when you see people with headphones on driving down the road?
Tolls are supposed to pay for the cost of building and maintaining a bridge or roadway. When there is a large enough fund so that repairs are paid for, the tolls are supposed to be removed. The problem is the politicians see the tolls as a source of general revenue, not a dedicated funding source for a specific item. They would rather continue to collect the taxes (tolls) than treat the public fairly!If they are paid for, then who pays for the up-keep, such as repaving and cleaning? Bridges are NEVER paid for.
does anyone believe that all the redlight cameras citys are putting up to generate revenue?
Maintenance and upkeep. Not to mention greed of your state. They want to keep the double taxation rolling in.how many gallons of diesel fuel does it take to make a gallon of ethanol?
To pay for new bridges that aren't.How long does it take for traffic stoplights to change from red to green and back again?
the money collected on this is supposed to go for maintenance on the brides,but it doesn't always wind up doing that,,but that was the main reason for any kind of a charge for using them,,good luck,i hope this help,s.,,have a good x-mas.Maintence...they need a lot of work to stay up. Also general highway expenses and maintence.
Any video of sleepy female drivers out there home made or other?
to pay for the maintenance.Because bridges need constant maintenance. After you buy a car or a house do you never put money into it again? I know that bridges such as the Mackinac Bridge, longest suspension bridge in the U.S. are under work constantly. Basically by the time they get done painting it you get to start again at the beginning.
How much is gas where you are?
To maintain them. Bridges are VERY expensive to maintain in a safe condition.Why does the HOV lane symbol on the I-5 near Seattle changes from 2+ people to just 2?
When toll bridges,tunnels and turnpikes are built , bonds are sold to pay for them . Tolls are collected to pay off the bonds not the construction of the structure[s]. When the obligation [debt ]to the bond holders has been satisfied, the tolls should be removed.What happens of course is that the tolls remain and either get rolled back into the authority that runs the facility, becomes part of the states general fund or gets used for maintenance , health and retirement benefits for the people that work on the bridges etc.
If you want to read a really great book about this subject, read Power Broker by Robert Caro. It is a biography about Robert Moses who was NYC's greatest builder of civil engineering projects. The Pulitzer Prize winning book is about more than engineering, it's about money and how having power over that much money can lead to corruption.
Can anyone tell of some good and not expensive limo car service that go to Cranbury, NJ to NYC?
Somebody owns the bridge you need to cross to get from where you are to where you want to be. Sooooo....you pay or you don't go. Plus what everybody else said...LOL!What were the highlights of america's transportation revolution?
well, of course like everyone else has said, maintainence, but probably also because even if it is there to pay it off for a while and they should be removing it.... the government thinks 'how do the people know its not paid for yet? lets make money off of it! woohoo!' and they really shouldn't do that, but sadly, they do. We are all human, and the government isn't any better, and we are all greedy, except for some people who are just, well, not greedy.More Questions & Answers ...
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