A question for people living in Southern Ohio

[naford]

I heard that they were going to raise users fees. One of the fees was to make some of the roads in Southern Ohio toll roads, like they do around Chicago. I heard they are talking about a toll on a bridge or bridges so they can be finished. I wondering if anybody heard anything about this.

 

[Mark_88]

They introduced a toll highway in Ontario a few years ago...and now they are extending it...but there haven't been any new toll roads since...and I haven't heard of any plans for more...

It's a good way to raise funds, but there is a potential billing issue that can cause thousands of people to start to really dislike the idea...ask me how I know...lol

If they put up toll booths then it's not so much a problem...but those electronic transponders have issues...

 

[Jraymer360]

i hate paying for the Ohio turnpike! it's less of the paying ..and more of the stop to pay. especially if it's super busy.

 

[det107]

......I wondering if anybody heard anything about this.

A recent newspaper article stated that tolls will be the norm to pay for the infrastructures. Just another way of sticking it to motorists by nickel & dimeing us to death-

 

[tpelle]

What you may have been hearing about is the funding for the new Brent-Spence Bridge, which carries I-75 over the Ohio River between Kentucky and Ohio. Keep in mind that the Ohio River is, for the most part, in Kentucky, so Kentucky would be largely responsible for funding the new bridge. Kentucky is discussing paying for the bridge, if and when it's built, by making it toll.

 

[naford]

It is something like a bridge. They didn't have that balls to raise the gas tax so they are going to make you pay eveytime you go across the bridge.

 

[killj0y]

It's cool if they actually use it to recoup initial costs, but most toll roads I know never lose the damn toll. as in once you give then an inch they are there to stay. So I'm not a fan.

 

[tpelle]

It's cool if they actually use it to recoup initial costs, but most toll roads I know never lose the damn toll. as in once you give then an inch they are there to stay. So I'm not a fan.

Actually the WK Parkway (Western Kentucky Parkway) that runs from I65 south of Louisville over to Paducah used to be toll, 30 or 40 years ago, but last time I drove it a couple of years ago the toll booths were gone. So sometimes we have a win.

 

[det107]

Some changes already are underway.......

.......in addition to the tolls allowed on Interstates in 15 states, mostly in the Northeast and Midwest. The U.S. has agreed to pilot toll projects on Interstate 95 in Virginia & North Carolina and on Interstate 70 in Missouri-