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Most places west of the Eastern seaboard do not allow tolls to continue to operate after the initial road funding has been fulfilled. Once states get that revenue stream, it's usually impossible for them to ever give it up. This is good news, and atypical on the east coast.
Apparently keeping up the infrastructure on the road will cost millions in the future, diverting funds from other highway projects.
Much of the traffic is from outside the state. It has been suggested that a low cost “zip pass” that frequent users could buy locally would be a better solution.
I have ezpass, which allows me to not stop, but it's the same cost. It works at every toll I've been to in the last five years (NY, NJ, VA, MD, WV, PA).
I have ezpass, which allows me to not stop, but it's the same cost. It works at every toll I've been to in the last five years (NY, NJ, VA, MD, WV, PA).
In PA, the EZPass, at least at certain exits, actually cheaper than paying in cash. I imagine that in a few years, EZPass or something like it will be built-in, like Bluetooth and GPS.
EZPass is dominant from Illinois east to North Carolina. Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida has a different electronic toll system. Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Vermont and Connecticut don't have electronic collection. EZPass Map.
I have ezpass, which allows me to not stop, but it's the same cost. It works at every toll I've been to in the last five years (NY, NJ, VA, MD, WV, PA).
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Originally Posted by snorpus
In PA, the EZPass, at least at certain exits, actually cheaper than paying in cash. I imagine that in a few years, EZPass or something like it will be built-in, like Bluetooth and GPS.
EZPass is dominant from Illinois east to North Carolina. Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida has a different electronic toll system. Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Vermont and Connecticut don't have electronic collection. EZPass Map.
You can go ahead and add Mass., NH, and Maine to the list that have EZPass.
Because we need state highways. States job. If they are willing to build toll highways and interstates we are all for it but none are proposed. Instead they are building 3 interstates to and from nowhere in Southern WV that don't have tolls.
Aren't there jobs involved when those highways in southern West Virginia are built too?
THere is a possiblity I'll be moving to Charleston from Baltimore this summer. If I do so.....end up I'll be fighting the same battle against Morgantown the way people in the rest of Maryland have to fight the Washington suburbs and Baltimore City who push their liberal laws on us and take our tax money for their own needs. Thank God Morgantown's PRT is funded by WVU and not by statewide taxpayers. And I hear WVU is funded mostly by tuition from out of state students and not by state taxes.
West Virginia seems unique in that even the Democrats there are not as bad, that even many Democrats in WV supported eliminating the tolls. In Maryland and nationally the Democrats LOVE every toll and tax increase possible. They are still raising the tolls on the CHesapeake Bay bridge and the Baltimore harbor tunnels despite these things being paid off decades ago.
I'm a registered Republican and always have voted Republican and conservative in local, state, and national elections......maybe in WV I'll find an acceptable Democrat who is not CRAZY about raising taxes and is business friendly, is pro-life, anti-gay marriage, opposes illegal immigration, and supports gun ownership.
[quote=Tom Lennox 70;29035423]Aren't there jobs involved when those highways in southern West Virginia are built too?
This has been a great debate over building highways in SWV, especially on here.
Where as I'm a proponent for building the Coalfields Expressway and the King Coal Highway using coal synergy to save the State and Federal Government valuable tax dollars, which when built the will give us safe, basic infrastructure and promote economic development.
My esteemed colleagues upstate, and others, decry these highways built in SWV as pork, wasteful spending with no need. I understand they have traffic issues upstate that need addressed, so I feel their pain.
West Virginia needs to be as friendly to the coal and natural gas companies as possible. Those who are against this are biting the hand that feeds them. A West Virginia politician who goes against coal is like someone in Nevada who hates casinos and tourism and someone from Michigan who hates the auto industry. Building the new coal expressways will be a smart investment for West Virginia if it opens more areas to mining because the state will benefit eventually when the coal starts being shipped out. Now I know coal will not last forever just like the oil will not last forever in Iraq but for the forseeble future i think its in WV's best interests to be friendly to the coal industry. This doesn't mean wind power and all that green stuff can't also be promoted as well and I seen wind farms near Romney and Keyser.
At least WV is still building highways, and still trying to attract companies. Northern West Virginia felt more like Pennsylvania to me than the rest of WV, at least the Morgantown area. I don't know about Fairmont even there there is not much of a Southern cultural feel while CHarleston felt more southern, at did Bluefields.
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