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Thread ID: 16658 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2005-02-08
2005-02-08 14:24 | User Profile
Schwarzenegger to bring toll roads to California
America taxpayer pays billions in Gas Taxes each and every year. The Government has funds to to fix every pothole in America, iF they were not taking the these funds to use for other stuff.
[QUOTE]Roads might take toll
Californians would pay tolls to drive on a statewide network of privately built roads and bridges under a major overhaul of state transportation policy about to be unveiled by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The proposal, expected to be announced as early as this month, would enable Schwarzenegger to pump up the stateââ¬â¢s cash-starved road- building program without raising taxes. It would also mark a fundamental shift in transportation policy in California, where drivers, in love with their cars and the exhilaration of the open road, have long regarded free highways as a near birthright. Dubbed GoCalifornia, the proposal would make it easier for private companies to build, operate and maintain highways, toll roads, bridges and toll lanes similar to those that whisk commuters between Riverside and Orange County on the Riverside (91) Freeway, according to transportation experts who have spoken to administration officials about elements of the plan. Read the story here.
[url]http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/02/02/sections/news/news/article_395849.php[/url] [/QUOTE]
2005-02-08 15:32 | User Profile
Sounds like Arnold is getting his inspiration from the movie [I]Jude Suess.[/I]
2005-02-08 17:48 | User Profile
The keys words here are "private companys" and "private roads", how many people will loose their home in order for the private companys to build their private roads?.
Will Arnold steal all those homes under the " eminent domain" rule (is that what it is called?, I forgot) where will all those people moved to? they will never get the price for their homes that they should and will not be able to buy a new home........are those roads for the "good" of the people?
I lived in Ca. for over thirty years and all you have on those roads are potholes and bumpy roads and part of the roads are always closed, been in Oregon for five years and I am yet to see one single pothole it is a pleasure to drive here on the roadways.
Even here in my one mule town (to small to be a one horse town) the week that I moved here I was thinking "wowwwww what a nice road they heve here" and three weeks later they came and paved over and painted the "nice" road once again.
2005-02-08 17:51 | User Profile
"eminent domain" That's what it is called. A license to steal, in its present form.
2005-02-09 00:27 | User Profile
We already pay a tax of 40-to-50 cents a gallon of gasoline. We should not have to pay a toll too.
2005-02-09 01:14 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]"eminent domain" That's what it is called. A license to steal, in its present form.[/QUOTE] Yes, and eminent domain isn't just used for public works, here in Cinci. eminent domain was (mis) used to force the displacement and subsequent building of Rookwood Commons shopping center, under the guise of "urban renewal".
2005-02-09 01:25 | User Profile
Flak,
That is the way I was thinking about. Wal-Mart is one of the worse offenders.
2005-02-09 05:10 | User Profile
Sertorius,
Yes you are very Right.
2005-02-09 06:01 | User Profile
I don't like the idea of having to pay a toll to use a road. Take it to an extreme, imagine if you had to pay a toll just to leave your driveway. Pay for the roads with gas taxes, not tolls.
2005-02-24 06:28 | User Profile
Eminent domain abuse to be reviewed by SCOTUS:
[url="http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050222-111909-3766r.htm"]http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050222-111909-3766r.htm[/url]