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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