BTDT, The Florida turnpike was paid for a while back, you don't see that tourist infested system stopping tolls..."its for maintenance"... These roads are heavily used...however....there's no weather to crack em up, etc... Just to put into perspective how much $$$ flows through there: 15 years ago (mind you tolls have increased considerably in 15 years) I used to count coin (with a big machine) at a bank in Riviera Beach Florida. We had the Florida turnpike account. One of the larger toll plazas "Okeechobee Road" (a plaza that sits close to I-95 so heavily used) I used to count $20,000 in just coin that physically exchanged hands with an operator (not "exact change" lane). That didn't include cash dollar bills and that was before the advent of the Speed-pass, etc...but again, that was 20K per day in the smallest "denominator" so to speak. The "exact change vaults" were HUGE, I don't even remember how much those deposits were... That hasn't stopped me from driving the toll roads unfortunately...maybe it should ;-) Dave On 6/27/06, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote: > > RE: Tolls > Joy is right, the term Freeway comes from the fact that such highways are > free as opposed to being Tollways. > And an interesting story about tolls from here in the Pugent Sound area. > After the tolls on two bridges (that I travel frequently in my Westy, VC) > had paid for the bonds used to finance them the State of Washington wanted > to continue the tolls, still wanted the money. The courts said "No", > can't > do that. and the tolls were removed. One of those bridges was the > infamous > Narrows Bridge, the 'Galloping Gerty' that everyone has seen the film of > falling apart in the wind a few months after it was built. It was > replaced > but now, many years later, they are building a second bridge parallel to > it > to handle the increased traffic. It to will be a toll bridge but how much > do you want to bet that politicians worded the legislation that created > it > such that the tolls will be there forever? >
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