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Reading several posts about the 540 expansion has now confused me a bit. I do have a few questions that may help clarify things a bit.
Has construction started?
How much is the toll going to cost and how many toll booths?
What is the expansion plan of 540? Do they complete a little and open that section up? Or, do they do one large section of construction at a time?
Are they going to make the northern part of existing 540 a toll too? Why make any of 540 a toll at all? Was this voted on?
Thanks in advance
Construction has started
I don't know how much the tolls will be or how many toll booths there will be
I'm assuming they will open the section they are working on now all at once
Don't think they will be making the existing 540 a toll road.
They made the new section a toll road so they could pay for it. As one of the guys in charge of the project said "If you don't won't to pay the tolls, don't use the road"
I don't think we had a choice whether or not this was going to be a toll road as the funds were not available to build the road without the future tolls
I find the expansion plan a little confusing, too. The part they're currently working on is the part around Apex, right? Is that the one that's scheduled to be completed around 2012? That would be useful, since we're moving to Apex soon.
As far as toll booths go, there won't be any. It will be electronic. You just drive right through and they bill you through a prepaid account or through the mail.
Why not make the whole thing a toll and pay it off sooner? Or build up a bigger fund for maintenance in the future? Even though I know the politicians would raid the fund for other useless pork spending.
[*]They made the new section a toll road so they could pay for it. As one of the guys in charge of the project said "If you don't won't to pay the tolls, don't use the road"
This quote is very disturbing. Shame on him whoever said this. And, shame on us for allowing a government official to get away this arrogance. As Americans, we have forgotten that the government is here to serve us; we do not exist to serve the government. A toll is another loophole to allow the government to take MORE of your money.
"A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, ... enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything"
Bingo! The government will pay for it one way or another. Why not make the people that use the road pay for it?
Mike
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