Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:53:40PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:

If that were true, US-101 across the Columbia River would still be toll,
and last summer I would have had a lot more toll receipts from Bridge of
the
Gods, which for the first time in memory was toll-free last summer. I-5
from Portland, Ore to Vancouver, Wash. was once a toll road when the
Interstate Bridge was built, then the toll was lifted. It was instated
again a few years later to build the third and fourth spans to make the
highway dual carriageway, and once paid off the toll plaza closed once
again. Right now, it's looking like I-5 will close from Portland, Oregon
to Vancouver, Washington for about three years while the current
Interstate Bridges are bulldozed and something that passes earthquake and
highway code replaces it, which will inevitably reopen as a toll bridge
(since pretty much the only people that use the Oregon-owned span are
Washingtonians[1]).

AFAIK, there has not been a toll road in Florida that started out toll
and then had the toll lifted. Of course, most parts of Florida don't
have proper freeway networks, and so they have a captive audience.

Probably doesn't help that Florida insists on continued existence despite
being mostly low-lying or swampland in a hurricane zone. That's a
situation not particularly conducive to long term civil engineering.



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