[jarjoura]

Aren't toll roads the norm? It was radical in the 1940s and 1950s to create public freeways.

Toll roads do have real consequences and, do, raise the cost of everything that needs to travel over it. It also means things that could exist on one side of a bridge or tolled section will relocate to other areas to avoid tolls.

Not against them, but I also don't like them. I personally think it's a failure of a state managing its roads where the cost has to become disproporiationally spread.

[ghaff]

>Aren't toll roads the norm?

No. I won't say they're rare but they're not especially common in the US.

[pinkmuffinere]

Do you perhaps live in Florida or Oklahoma? They are quite rare in CA, the southwestern states in general, and the upper midwest.

[Bengalilol]

> "For now, drivers pay to access just 6,300 miles of America’s 160,000 or so miles of highway"