Turnpike vows carmageddon if it doesn't get its way
By adamg - Thu, 08/06/2009 - 7:58am.
Warns it will shut down tunnels, highways it controls inside 128 if anti-toll people get a restraining order in court today. You know, like the entire Big Dig complex.
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Pike case nonsense
Ok everyone, let's calm down. First of all, no judge in her right mind will issue the order Plaintiffs seek. Secondly, the turnpike cannot shut down these roads as a matter of federal law. Let's stop the nonsense posturing and let the suit move to its inevitable conclusion - either summary judgment or a dismissal granted to the Turnpike.
So the people who use the
So the people who use the roads don't want to pay their fair share to use them?
City people who don't even have cars are paying to maintain roads we have no way of using! Sometimes, I do wish Boston (read: Eastern MA) had a more sizable chunk of political clout.
We pay for their roads while they contribute fractions of a penny on the MBTA that services many more people. It's not surprising they have the power to arrange this sort of thing.
I continued to be amazed by the miserly suburbanite lobby and the nutjobs who swoop down from New Hampshire trying to influence our state politics. It seems their selfishness never ends.
Perhaps the MBTA has been using this tactic
With all the disabled and late trains, perhaps this is just a ploy by the T to encourage people not to fight the fare increase.
Good, shut it down
Fire all the employees too. Save the state some money.
Seriously, call their stupid bluff. It's absolutely absurd that "MetroWest" commuters are paying double the maintenance costs for their roads in order to cover Big Dig debt AND maintenance costs for 93 while 93 commuters drive in and out of the city for free. There's nothing special about the Pike from the 128 tolls inward that distinguishes it from the SE Expressway or 93N. But instead of using plate-reading technology used in Europe and other methods of toll collection on 93, the answer has always been "up the tolls on the Pike" because it's easy and it has always been a boiling frog syndrome.
My solution is tolls on
My solution is tolls on 95/93 at the border, and a small tax on all state residents.
We all benefit from it, some directly, some indirectly.
That said, the biggest abusers are the live in NH, work in Boston folks who commute in every day through it from 95 to 93.
Abusers?
So I abuse the broken MA system by living in NH and working in MA? Explain that one to me, please.
That being said, if they were to toll 93 at the border, I wouldn't have a problem paying it. I want smooth roads and lines I can see in the rain.
Of course, until NH is able to expand from 2 lanes at the border on 93, there isn't a chance in the world that tolls will happen. By the time it does, I will have relocated my business to NH.
sounds awesome, does this
sounds awesome, does this mean i can bike to east boston now?
HAHA
bring it on! weren't they like, supposed to shut down the god damn tolls at some point in time? close it all. fill it with water and open a water park!
We can haz matchoor govmnt?
Now?
The big dig would be a great
The big dig would be a great place to host a rave
It's unfortunate
that they don't have any gorillas to threaten.