Hi
Anyone else not want ot pay tolls for the new re-design of 81?
Anyone else thinkin of doin anything about it?
I don't see why the western half of Virginia gets to pay for Tidewater's and NoVA's road improvements AND pay for our roads PLUS pay tolls each time we want to drive somewhere. Recently, NoVA and Tidewater were given the choice via referendums on local tax increases to pay for their roads and they voted it down. However, the West doesn't get that choice - we will be forced to pay use fees on our one main road. (Nevermind that NoVA and Tidewater have a network of interstates and high capacity roadways vs. our one)
State funding for VA-58 has never been fulfilled nor has the construction timeline improved. The state government is increasingly cutting off the Western half, especially southwest Virginia, from the rest of the state. It is no wonder Virginia Beach loses money from Western Virginia tourists when it is sadly easier to travel to Myrtle Beach two states away than travel 58 to VA beach.
They expect to pay it off with tolls at a cost of $3.3 billion. The original proposal created tolls only for trucks, and only recently has the plan been modified to add tolls to cars, too. Oh, sure, they claim it will be low cost tolls. Do you really believe that? How long until western Virginia turns into the New Jersey Turnpike?
Local and regional traffic that used I-81, the longest interstate in VA, to travel will be forced into the backroads, already too crowded and lacking safety measures (curvy roads on mountain tops with no guard rails and a long (but quick) trip down)). What will happen to the quality of rural roads when 30,000 motorists are riding the country lanes?
The polls were originally supposed to pay for rail improvements so as to move more freight less by trucking and more by track. However, the federal government WILL NOT allow a state government to tax an interstate for money allocated for rail transport. However, the state government DOES have the CHOICE on who to tax and how much to tax for tolls.
So who else is fed up with Richmond?
Anyone else not want ot pay tolls for the new re-design of 81?
Anyone else thinkin of doin anything about it?
I don't see why the western half of Virginia gets to pay for Tidewater's and NoVA's road improvements AND pay for our roads PLUS pay tolls each time we want to drive somewhere. Recently, NoVA and Tidewater were given the choice via referendums on local tax increases to pay for their roads and they voted it down. However, the West doesn't get that choice - we will be forced to pay use fees on our one main road. (Nevermind that NoVA and Tidewater have a network of interstates and high capacity roadways vs. our one)
State funding for VA-58 has never been fulfilled nor has the construction timeline improved. The state government is increasingly cutting off the Western half, especially southwest Virginia, from the rest of the state. It is no wonder Virginia Beach loses money from Western Virginia tourists when it is sadly easier to travel to Myrtle Beach two states away than travel 58 to VA beach.
They expect to pay it off with tolls at a cost of $3.3 billion. The original proposal created tolls only for trucks, and only recently has the plan been modified to add tolls to cars, too. Oh, sure, they claim it will be low cost tolls. Do you really believe that? How long until western Virginia turns into the New Jersey Turnpike?
Local and regional traffic that used I-81, the longest interstate in VA, to travel will be forced into the backroads, already too crowded and lacking safety measures (curvy roads on mountain tops with no guard rails and a long (but quick) trip down)). What will happen to the quality of rural roads when 30,000 motorists are riding the country lanes?
The polls were originally supposed to pay for rail improvements so as to move more freight less by trucking and more by track. However, the federal government WILL NOT allow a state government to tax an interstate for money allocated for rail transport. However, the state government DOES have the CHOICE on who to tax and how much to tax for tolls.
So who else is fed up with Richmond?
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