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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by tomtrain</i> <br /><br />Though I think I've always been in the minority in thinking this way, I've always thought that the interstate highway system should be a toll system where the people using it (cars and trucks) would pay for the cost of it and receive the benefit of it. The endless demand of a free good would be held in check by dollars and cents that way. The regular highway system would continue to be "free" access, and the military security need for "autobahns" would be satisfied. <br /> <br />The first interstates were and are toll systems, and were built on relatively cheap land and passed near cities, not through them. Today, massive chunks of money are being spent to rebuild worn-out urban interchanges that economics would dictate shouldn't have been built in the first place. The rebuilding of the Marquette interchange in Milwaukee at upwards of a billion bucks is soaking up most of the funds available to maintain the rest of Wisconsin's interstates. <br /> <br />One poor economic decision plopped onto another plopped onto another. (I realize highways have been used as a tool for ecomomic development just as railroads were, but railroads were overbuilt too. Maybe it's starting to be time to make the actual users pay the full cost of the interstates, and allow disinvestment in some of the least economic roadways). <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I hear what you are saying,... be interesting to see all the people "flock" to the old US highway routes if they did start charging for interstate usage,,,,,,sure make the few remaining roadside motel operators happy [8)]
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