Re: It ain't all about poor cities and states
Unfortunately, Washington seems to have forgotten that we're not on the right coast, and has started tolls on things.
Carpool lane? yeah, pay a toll, and any old idiot can go flying down it. Of course, they then randomly jack the price up if there's a traffic jam. (Don't ask where the money goes, they aren't telling...)
Oh, you want another bridge over the Puget Sound, and the existing one was paid off and the toll booths closed down and legally not allowed to be re-opened? Yeah, we'll make that a one way bridge, and toll the new bridge going the other way! (No sunset clause in it's financing, and again, no telling where the money is going...)
All that money going *somewhere* and they have still been regularly making noise about raising taxes on things to pay for the roads and transit projects.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
