re: Solution to Baton Rouge and surrounding parish traffic

People do realize that higher tolls against 18 wheelers just get passed along to the final price of final goods, right? Look at the shipping costs of commodities in the northeast in comparison to the southeast - one big f'ing reason is the amount of tolls the dumbshit politicians keep passing on trucking companies thinking that's solving the problem, but guess what? That $100 toll to cross the George Washington Bridge on i95 in NYC gets passed to the receiver, then down the logistics chain to the final customer. Every damned freeway up there is tolled coupled with much higher taxes on diesel and they can't figure out why a small box of cereal is $8.