Toll Road! (Blennerhassett, Charles Town, Hedgesville: transfer, buying, high school)

[Katie1]

I heard on the news last nite that our nice Gov is going to turn Rt 9 into a TOLL road....& they havent even finished it yet!! So I am wondering What do you think of it? I think it sucks..No more trips to Charles Town for me!

[David Kennedy]

Sorry, Katie but the toll roads are coming back...get your dollars ready...Gov MoJo sees no other way to offset the cost of road maintenance....

[Janipoo]

I've heard they were talking about toll roads but I didn't realize that Route 9 was one of them. Will it be the whole stretch? My daughter goes to school at Hedgesville, does that mean I will have to pay to pick her up from there?

[x1x]

I was thinking that perhaps with gasoline being so high, and people not buying/driving as much has created a shortage of road tax thats on gasoline? So the state is going to place a toll on roads to off set the gasoline tax their loseing.....

[Threerun]

Federal road funds have been diminishing as well. I'm not happy about toll roads, especially if you couple it with privatization of public assets.

The other side of the coin is trying to generate enough revenue in the state in order to maintain our infrastructure.

I guess either way it's going to come off somebody's skin.

[David Kennedy]

Every big road project in Wv was put on hold so Rt 9 could be completed to get the gamblers to Wv...the mistake being that it needs more lanes...and that will come long into the future...now we can have the finals for Corridor H and the inner links through Wv to I-68...
Wv is on the move...some is this is grudge driven by the fact of Pennsi getting the new road into the south end of Pittsburgh and It's a toll ...except the last 5 miles in Wv...these highways once cost a mere 1 million a mile...somehow they cost about 20 million now with all the regs...and the concrete is still the same...lasts about 10 years and then crumbles...high speed public transport is just around the corner....

[GottaHerdOn]

Originally Posted by David Kennedy

Every big road project in Wv was put on hold so Rt 9 could be completed to get the gamblers to Wv...the mistake being that it needs more lanes...and that will come long into the future...now we can have the finals for Corridor H and the inner links through Wv to I-68...
Wv is on the move...some is this is grudge driven by the fact of Pennsi getting the new road into the south end of Pittsburgh and It's a toll ...except the last 5 miles in Wv...these highways once cost a mere 1 million a mile...somehow they cost about 20 million now with all the regs...and the concrete is still the same...lasts about 10 years and then crumbles...high speed public transport is just around the corner....

Corridor H was started when my parents were in high school in 1975. So its going on 40 years later and it still is not finished. I think its time we finish it, if it takes a toll. I'd agree with that. WV as a state is only going to advance if we open our state up and make it more accessible. If that means tolls, which are hopefully only temporary to pay for the roads. I'm for it. I'm not for paying a toll on that road for the rest of my life however. Just to help supplement the costs of that road. Luckily Corridor H hasn't been proposed for a toll though... So shhh, ha ha

[Two-Rivers]

The deal of paying tolls until the project is paid for, can be unending. The Memorial Toll Bridge here was supposed to be like that. When the final bond payment was made, ownership transferred from the state to the city, and the tolls were not lifted.

They didn't shut down the Corridor D project to help Rt.9, it has run full on from the beginning. The last phase being the Ohio river bridge, which will open within a few weeks.
When I can post live links, I'll give you the bridge cam, it's kinda neat. We were supposed to get a picturesque, 'signature' bridge. After the public favored the pretty bridge, with it's piers on Blennerhassett Island, money ran short and a less costly design substituted. hmmm

With the high price of oil, so goes asphalt. I figure wherever we drive, we're going to need to pull up our shocks and pump up our tires, because most roads are going to get a lot rougher before any paving is done.

My running joke is that the state used sidewalk money to repair highways, giving us a three foot wide strip of new pavement in each lane. Some bumper stickers around here read, "Pray for me, I drive Rt.47".

I'm betting someone is wishing they would have kept the tolls up on the WV Turnpike. Remember when the price went up, everyone complained, and the price came down? TR

[harborlady]

Originally Posted by Katie1

I heard on the news last nite that our nice Gov is going to turn Rt 9 into a TOLL road....& they havent even finished it yet!! So I am wondering What do you think of it? I think it sucks..No more trips to Charles Town for me!

Katie it cost me $8 for the priviledge of getting off long island NY, and they're about to double it with another fee that's got another name but it's also $8. One big ole shell game... Looks like I got out just in time! hahahaa

[David Kennedy]

GHO: If Corridor H is tolled it will stiffel the growth of inner Wv. I see toll roads on the perimeter of the state where the majority of its users are mostly out of state people...its helps to misdirect the public relations efforts when this is crammed down the peoples throats. Remember the fiasco of rebellion on 64 about 4 years ago...this toll was re adjusted in a hurry when the people showed their intentions to remove everyone from their political jobs...MoJo remembers this...
Corridor H has been built a dollar at a time...It has been an incredible gift to us..

What is happening is this...the creation of horrible roads in almost an instant up here in the North...all that black topping that looked so good last year.. an inch of blacktop only holds until the winter comes...It was spred so thin...now its all coming loose and the highways are worse than before...I removed the hubcaps from all the vehicles last week when my lady hit a pot hole and lost the cap from the subaru...
that asphalt was used to cover as many miles as possible and now the roads are horrible...a warning can be done for others by putting a piece of broken road in a big walmart bag and placing it in the deep part of the water...it warns others to avoid the pending chasm..and the white plactic bags wear well too...My lady has done this for the major holes on our street and I was impressed that something could be done so quickly without any real cost...years ago, we were know for the 'West Virginia Sunflowers...those huge satelite dishes in everyones yard...now we will be known for the
white spring road flowers blooming in the potholes of Wv...thank you, Sam Walton...