[RunD1987]

So just a mid week dumb ?

Now say if tolls are not placed at on or off ramps

Could towns build their own tolls on non State roads?

Example driver A goes through toll on highway. Driver B avoids the toll gets off the exit prior before hopping back on. Right at the traffic light to the main road is a toll. Town collects toll. I mean would be beneficial for CT towns.

[MrGompers]

Originally Posted by RunD1987

So just a mid week dumb ?

Now say if tolls are not placed at on or off ramps

Could towns build their own tolls on non State roads?

Example driver A goes through toll on highway. Driver B avoids the toll gets off the exit prior before hopping back on. Right at the traffic light to the main road is a toll. Town collects toll. I mean would be beneficial for CT towns.

No chance of that happening. It would create too much admin costs for one thing.


I wonder what the towns are going to do when their roads start carrying more traffic due to drivers tryign to avoid tolls. I can guarantee that will happen especially at the CT/MA border.

[RunD1987]

Originally Posted by MrGompers

No chance of that happening. It would create too much admin costs for one thing.


I wonder what the towns are going to do when their roads start carrying more traffic due to drivers tryign to avoid tolls. I can guarantee that will happen especially at the CT/MA border.

Makes sense.

If the State puts gantries at every off or ramp would avoid over usage of local roads.

[JaneMeyer]

It's wrong to make people pay tolls because roads are a necessity and should be free to use. People use the roads to go to work everyday is not right to make people pay any kind of toll for that or for any other reason. Tolls are just going to make more problems for people and drive them further into debt.

[MrGompers]

Originally Posted by JaneMeyer

It's wrong to make people pay tolls because roads are a necessity and should be free to use. People use the roads to go to work everyday is not right to make people pay any kind of toll for that or for any other reason. Tolls are just going to make more problems for people and drive them further into debt.

Roads are not free, tolls would just be a different / additional funding source. I am against tolls, but if the state said they are going to reduce the gax tax at the same time I might be convinced. So far no one has proposed to reduce the gas tax to my knowledge.


CT is not the only state facing transportation funding issues though. Ohio just proposed an .18 cent per gallon gas tax increase and they already have tolls. Ohio's Gov is also a Republican.

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by MrGompers

Roads are not free, tolls would just be a different / additional funding source. I am against tolls, but if the state said they are going to reduce the gax tax at the same time I might be convinced. So far no one has proposed to reduce the gas tax to my knowledge.


CT is not the only state facing transportation funding issues though. Ohio just proposed an .18 cent per gallon gas tax increase and they already have tolls. Ohio's Gov is also a Republican.

Uh, Ohio has one toll. That’s it. The latest agreement re raising gas tax was 11 cents - not 18.

And everything in OH is otherwise dirt cheap. That’s not so in CT, where they’re continuing to propose tax increases on almost everything imaginable.

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by kidyankee764

Uh, Ohio has one toll. That’s it. The latest agreement re raising gas tax was 11 cents - not 18.

And everything in OH is otherwise dirt cheap. That’s not so in CT, where they’re continuing to propose tax increases on almost everything imaginable.

I think you mean Ohio has one toll road, not just one toll. It is the Ohio Turnpike (I-76/80/90) and it is 241 miles long. It is Ohio’s busiest highway and connects northern Ohio’s major cities (Cleveland, Toledo, Sandusky, etc.) much like I-95 which was the Connecticut Turnpike.

No agreement has been reached on how much the Ohio gas tax will be increased. The Governor wanted 18 cent increase but recently agreed to an 11 cent increase that the Ohio House proposed. Thats almost a 40% increase. The Ohio Senate though wants less. The point is the state has to significantly increase their gas tax like many other states are doing.

Everything in Ohio is cheap for a reason. Ohio’s median income is is about 2/3 of Connecticut’s. The cost of living difference however is not nearly that much. Jay

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by JayCT

I think you mean Ohio has one toll road, not just one toll. It is the Ohio Turnpike (I-76/80/90) and it is 241 miles long. It is Ohio’s busiest highway and connects northern Ohio’s major cities (Cleveland, Toledo, Sandusky, etc.) much like I-95 which was the Connecticut Turnpike.

No agreement has been reached on how much the Ohio gas tax will be increased. The Governor wanted 18 cent increase but recently agreed to an 11 cent increase that the Ohio House proposed. Thats almost a 40% increase. The Ohio Senate though wants less. The point is the state has to significantly increase their gas tax like many other states are doing.

Everything in Ohio is cheap for a reason. Ohio’s median income is is about 2/3 of Connecticut’s. The cost of living difference however is not nearly that much. Jay

Yeah, I meant one toll road and majority of the population in most of the metros don’t use that road regularly.

And while I agree with you that everything in OH is cheap for a reason, the cost of living is far less. Depending on the metro, average home prices are 47 to 110% higher in CT than in OH. That means the cost of living when looking at housing alone is more than 1/3.

Anyway, back to the topic: Ohio has one toll road. Saying “OH has tolls” as the previous poster stated is misleading IMO.

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by kidyankee764

Yeah, I meant one toll road and majority of the population in most of the metros don’t use that road regularly.

And while I agree with you that everything in OH is cheap for a reason, the cost of living is far less. Depending on the metro, average home prices are 47 to 110% higher in CT than in OH. That means the cost of living when looking at housing alone is more than 1/3.

Anyway, back to the topic: Ohio has one toll road. Saying “OH has tolls” as the previous poster stated is misleading IMO.

I just did a cost-of-living comparison of both Stamford (Connecticut's most expensive city) and New Haven to Cleveland and found a COL difference of 45% and 26% respectively. Of course the median income in greater Stamford is a lot higher than rest of the state. It is $81,634 which is 56% higher than Cleveland's median income $52,489. New Haven's median ($66,863) is 27% higher. So the median income person in greater Stamford does a lot better than the median income person in greater Cleveland and the median income person in New Haven does about the same.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-l...vs-stamford-ct

https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-l...s-new-haven-ct

All that said, a lot of people in Ohio use the Ohio Turnpike to commute so you should not dismiss this. Jay

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by JayCT

I just did a cost-of-living comparison of both Stamford (Connecticut's most expensive city) and New Haven to Cleveland and found a COL difference of 45% and 26% respectively. Of course the median income in greater Stamford is a lot higher than rest of the state. It is $81,634 which is 56% higher than Cleveland's median income $52,489. New Haven's median ($66,863) is 27% higher. So the median income person in greater Stamford does a lot better than the median income person in greater Cleveland and the median income person in New Haven does about the same.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-l...vs-stamford-ct

https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-l...s-new-haven-ct

All that said, a lot of people in Ohio use the Ohio Turnpike to commute so you should not dismiss this. Jay

I used CNN cost of living calculator, which gave very different results.