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. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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