getting screw again

[JohnnyD]

This is my favorite part:

"We're looking at congestion management options," Cape Cod Commission executive director Paul Niedzwiecki said in an interview yesterday. "It's not toll booths."

So, just because they won't be putting up booths, people shouldn't have a problem with it?

I partly agree with tattoobob, people are still going to flood the Cape in the summer months no matter what, and traffic is going to suck during the times it usually does no matter what. I do not believe the average family is going to adjust their plans to leave at 8pm on Sunday because the toll is $2.00 cheaper than if they left at noon like they want to.

And if this really is a "congestion management plan" then they should only need to have the billing system operational Memorial Day through Labor Day and during that time only Friday through Sunday, no? Those are the only months that congestion is a major issue. Otherwise, the people living around the Cape area or people who commute onto the Cape for work are the ones really paying the bill.

I wish they would at least have the balls to call this what it really is, an added revenue stream.

[gone fishin]

Amazing how an article that appears as this one did stirs up the troops. There are a bunch of problems that arise with toll booths on the bridges. What we could end up with is a series of toll booths like Conn. used to have. As I recall there were toll booths just about every town you passed through. I remember keeping a couple of rolls of quarters in the car just for tolls. High speed cameras have problems also. The pike is now under the gun for their failures.

If road congestion and repair is a problem, maybe a gas tax increase will be a less painful solution. Patrick will take a lot of heat, but realistically it could end the bureaucracy of the highway departments and spread the loot around, repairing the bridges and roads as needed. That will make one crook responsible instead of the multiples we now have.

The Capes retail is already having problems. Stores are closing and I noticed more vacancies than ever. Not enough customers to support them. The towns should be concentrating on getting more vehicles over the bridge and making a stay on the Cape a pleasure, rather than a rip off. I also noticed more real estate for sale today than any year past.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by gone fishin

Amazing how an article that appears as this one did stirs up the troops. There are a bunch of problems that arise with toll booths on the bridges. What we could end up with is a series of toll booths like Conn.

There won't be any actual "booths". Travel would occur just as it always has. Only difference is the state's going to send you a bill.

[stiff tip]

stay off my island...pay 2 play .fish on your side of da pond....it will never fly.....its all