Toll Booths: C/D?

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On one hand, they provide revenue to "fix roads"

On the other, they are kind of annoying

What says you?

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

A particularly ranting friend of mine describes them as a "regressive tax." I was just wondering how others felt, if at all.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

They lend an exciting, international-travel feel to boring afternoon trips to places like Hull or Kirkcaldy.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

The tollbooths at the Mt. Hope Bridge in RI were a net loss and kept there mostly to protect jobs.

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:36 (twenty years ago)

DUD

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Nothing like having eight lanes of traffic merge into three.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

i like driving through them with ezpass. the toll on my commute to work is $0.00.

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

There is apparently an ancient law which states that citizens of Inverness don't have to pay tolls anywhere in the UK (see this article here, under Robbie the Pict), so I officially don't care. Except that I've never quite plucked up the courage to argue the toss with any toll booth dudes.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I think this thread should be answered with pictures of cars crashing through toll booth gates. I myself can't find any.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

road tolls are regressive. they represent a larger pctg of low incomes than high incomes.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 March 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

There is apparently an ancient law which states that citizens of Inverness don't have to pay tolls anywhere in the UK

According to the article, the prosecutor tried to claim that that law only applies to tolls on cattle; but the text of the decree itself doesn't seem to agree with that:

May they (the people), present and future, know that I have quitclaimed all my burghers of Inverness at all times from tolls and from all customary dues throughout my whole land. Wherefore I strictly prohibit anyone from exacting from them a toll on their lord's cattle or any other customary dues, on pain of my full penalty.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Fortunately, the nearest toll road to me is more than 200 miles away.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

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KEEP OFFICER SHORT SHRIFT JOBFUL!

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

haha thats what i was thinking too

― +++, Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

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