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The good news -- there's less traffic on NJ roadways than expected. The bad news -- we'll probably end up paying for it. From the Star Ledger...
Traffic and toll revenue are down on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway despite the summer tourism season.Toll transactions on the parkway in June were down 4.3 percent compared to the same period last year. Revenues dipped 4.8 percent on the turnpike compared with June 2007.
And we go back to the time when NJ promised us that the tolls were temporary and will only stay in effect until the parkway was paid off...
If you want lower taxes you must cut services. That includes laying off State Troopers and shutting prisons. The war on drug is an expensive habit. We could also close some highways and shutdown some bridges.
"And we go back to the time when NJ promised us that the tolls were temporary and will only stay in effect until the parkway was paid off..."
This fiction is right up there with the Jersey Devil.
Anecdotally, I can report the same for the commute into Westchester County--fewer cars on the road. Still driving badly, unfortunately.
Mikey, always with the suggestions for further misery! You're not a very happy young laserboy, are you?
It not really misery but necessary shock treatments to correct the system. A temporary misery is better than misery in the long term.
I can think of necessary shock treatments after reading this post.
You wouldnt know traffic is down if you were on the GSP last Saturday. It was a parking lot.
From Wikipedia...
"Literature from the time of the Parkway's construction indicates that the Parkway would become toll-free once bonds used for its construction were paid off. However, additional construction projects, plus the expectation that the Parkway will pay for its own maintenance and policing (and the massive E-ZPass project) make it unlikely it will become toll-free in the foreseeable future."
Lasermikey,
I'm curious as to what highways or especially bridges you would shut down.
Someone qualified should mandate electroshock therapy for thee, laserlad. To ease your fulltime misery. Speaking of necessity, that is...
Well, the Pulaski Skyway has a safety rating of 2 out of 100. That would be my first choice.
Cathar, you're a coward. You talk a ton of crap but you don't have the stomach to follow through.
oh yeah, Nerf!
What would you like me to follow through on, laserboy? And jimmy229oz, you're much welcome to align yourself with the lad, or even to take him out sometime for ice cream. He could clearly use the companionship.
Steve from Yellowstone, mikey was trying to be grimly sarcastic. He's still in left-over dudgeon from the Roche thread yesterday, but is actually a tax-and-spend would-be "progressive" of the worst stripe.
Riiight, debt and spend has put this economy on the fast track to the A list.
Let us not forget multi-billion the bailout of Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. What's next? Shall we nationalist US Steel? I didn't know Repubicans were closet communists. So comrade, go on, go on.
Which does not exactly qualify as a reply to my question as to what you'd like me to follow through on, laserlumpenprole.
Your a republican in name only commie flip flopper. Why should I give a crap what you ask, say or think?
While in Monaco for the Grand Prix last spring, our yacht was moored near a 350-foot converted destroyer, fitted out with every imaginable luxury -- including "His and Hers" helicopters on the flying bridge hardtop. Interestingly, the vessel was named "EZ-Pass," and I later found out that it was owned by the guy who sold that system to the State of New Jersey. Nice boat.
Why indeed, mikeypal? But you do. I also sense a grace note of stress in your current sputum of postings. ("Bear baiting" is such fun, no wonder the Puritans banned it.)
And if I'm a "commie flip flopper," then you must be the reincarnation of Lavrenti Beria. (Still, this is a refeshing change from the days when you called me a "Nazi," a "fascist" and a "Klansman," among other things.)
Yeah, I saw that boat a few weeks ago moored @ Santorini. We were wondering WTF it was as we sipped our Ouzo.
The only way I will see that boat is if it sails down the East River.
The same boat was in Cannes in June. I didn't get a close look though because my room at the Carlton didn't have an ocean view.
Another reason Corslime will try to tax us more in some scheming way.