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I wish North Carolina would start using tolls on the interstates. Any more on I-26, over half of the cars on the road are out of state, mostly South Carolina and Tennessee. It seems like there are as many from Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio also. Just this past week, another idiot from South Carolina (no offense to any one from there, but this guy was just stupid) decided to have a case of beer in his car with several cans already empty, fly down a 3 mile 6% grade of interstate with many curves in excess of 100 mph, clip an SUV and go over the guard rail doing multiple flips and landing 75 feet down the bank taking out several tops of trees in the process. He was thrown out the back glass of his truck, but managed to walk back up the hill with the case of beer in his hand[banghead] <br /> <br />I understand that most of these people are either on vacation in the mountains or are just passing through going to or coming back from the beach and drive as they should, but it seems many are just joy-riding for the heck of it (and with gas this high?) But it seems that with all of this out of state traffic they should have to pay some sort of toll since the North Carolina taxpayer has to pay for road rehabilitation that is due mostly to all of these out of state drivers. I think it would also help minimize cases like I mentioned above from happening in the future, serving as a deterrent for those that don't want to pay and as a checkpoint. Just a thought I've had for awhile. <br /> <br />Oh, and more intermodal service! Help relieve interstate truck traffic. Gotta mention that![:D] <br />
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