Put your shoes on, spit out the chaw and venture up north sometime ( : Your paved cow path is all over the nation as you’ve already read. Same thing in Chicago (not where I live), where vehicles fly on the toll road and an electronic reader charges the toll fee to the drivers account. The speed limit might be 60 but the locals always do at least 85. Us out of towners do veer to the right and pay with U.S. currency. No chickens or apples for payment.
NH has a 10 mile stretch of highway on the coast (I 95). We have a toll there to get all the people from MA going to ME. That’s our biggest toll. Our next biggest toll is the one in Hookset. Here we toll all the people going to the White mountains for skiing in the winter and vacationing in the summer. Our tolls are strictly revenue tolls…NOT for maintaining the roads (which some does go toward).
NH will be installing the high speed readers on that I-95 toll that Mike mentioned. The rest will still have the 30 mph speed limits, at least for now. And, for the record, I go through the Bedford and the Hooksett tolls (one or both) daily in my commute. I speak as someone who actually does routinely use the tolls of which I offer my opinion.
If I worked at the tollbooths I’d be terrified to cross the lanes with motorists going the speeds they did before the 30 mph limits were enforced. I support the limits in the existing toll design.
You need not fell sorry for us. We’re perfectly happy here. There’s a lot of things that we’ve “figured out” that we’ve decided don’t meet our needs or aren’t justifiable from a cost standpoint.
NH will be installing the high speed readers on that I-95 toll that Mike mentioned.
MB…They’re already installed. Have been for about a year now.
Cool. I definitely need to get out more.
I don’t know mountainbike. If I could afford to stay in more, I would. Its crazy stupid out there.