re: Why is LA so against toll roads?

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Yes you can. Obama opened the door to states to look into doing that back in 2013 or 2014.


Link?

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FAST Act 2017

the FAST Act modifies some requirements of the Interstate System Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program, which allows tolling an existing Interstate highway to finance needed reconstruction or rehabilitation. Specifically, it sets new time limits for an applicant to move from a provisionally-approved application to a complete application that fully satisfies the program’s eligibility and selection criteria, complete the environmental review and permitting process under the National Environmental Policy Act, and execute a toll agreement with the Secretary. States for which FHWA had provisionally approved an application prior to enactment of the FAST Act have a one-year time limit, while provisional approvals subsequent to enactment of the FAST Act will have a three-year time limit. The FAST Act also gives FHWA the authority to extend either of these limits by an additional year if certain conditions in the statute are met.

Simple...,,,

La., is a Third World State

Because Huey Long and the Dems convinced the poors they can get all kinds of cool shite for free.

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Toll roads are notoriously corrupt. Can you imagine how bad it would be here?



When the CCC had a toll, it was able to provide for its own maintenance, maintenance crew, patrol division, and engineers without a dime from state and had a surplus.

Take away the toll, and the already stretched thin state bridge budget can't cover the cost of yearly painting it.

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I'm fairly certain that every Nola area toll had at least one instance of fraud.

The one on the westbank of the MS was being robbed blind for years.

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The Sad Banana

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The gas tax has not be raised since 1989. What good or service can you think of that you consume that hasn't been adjusted for inflation or costs?

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I have been preaching this for the last few years until I think my teeth were bleeding at one point. Nobody wants to hear it. Nobody wants to be educated. There is something real sad to be said for people who refuse to allow themselves to be educated. Nobody wants logic, they just want to complain.

They'll have their chance, at least for the next 8 or so years.

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magine a BR loop with $10 toll to go across entire length.

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I can imagine that. I can also imagine $9.90 of that toll going into a politicians wallet.

The political and govt contractor class are going to love it.

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Can't install tolls on federal interstates.

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Over 70 million dollars was taken from the gas trust fund to fund State Police. Does that tell you something?

You can not just look at the gas tax and our highways as a stand alone problem, not when for the most part the same taxpayers pay the gas tax as well as the sales taxes and income taxes.

If the state can afford to give yp 150, 180 and over 200 million a year in revenues to buy business from the film industry it tells me we have more money than we need.

When you read that our nursing home industry influences our state legislators and our governor to provide for more nursing home care to the tune of 200 million plus a year than our sister states, then that tells me we have more money than we need.

We are not a rich state, but our gas tax is the same as Texas. We should be able to operate well with that don't you think, but we all know we can't. We need twice as much on a gallon of gas because we have so much inefficiency, waste and abuse to cover.

I'd go along with a gas tax increase if they lowered taxes elsewhere and cut out the favoritism and special programs which cost the general fund millions.

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"Us" meaning the road construction contractors, CE's, etc and others that stood to rake it in if this tax would've been inacted?

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You aren't wrong in that those groups will reap some benefit, but before major improvements are made to the highways and bridges, those same groups will be involved. Do you think something is just going to shite another Miss. River Bridge? It's going to have to be designed and built and nobody on this earth is going to do it for free. Money is going to have to be collected from somewhere BEFORE that bridge shows up. Where do you propose it come from? I can tell you, no matter what you cut out of the budget, that kind of money is not there.

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for the state of Louisiana to allocate only to transportation and infrastructure.

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How naive.