Toll Roads Are Mostly A Private Profit Scam - SOME MORE NEWS
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:21 - The History of Toll Roads
12:48 - How Toll Roads Work
22:36 - Texas and Florida
28:59 - Corruption and Excessive Rates
31:52 - Asset Recycling
35:55 - What Do We Do? 
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I really enjoyed when New York fired all the toll booth workers in exchange for automation and yet didn't reduce the cost of the tolls one single penny despite not having to pay the salaries of thousands of people that no longer had a job.
Well, you see, obviously, it’s because robots are expensive… up front and one time, especially when you KNOW they won’t update or upgrade those things for literal decades until it’s so broken it causes them to lose money
@@averyemlIf robots were more expensive than workers they would never use robots.
@@theeccentric7263sarcasm.
The discounts are there with the EZPass. It's only automated pricing then. If you don't have EZPass then someone has to process the toll and mail you a bill.
Massive cost of maintaining road infrastructure still increasing drastically. Hope they find work that doesn't involve drowning in the smog
Since Tolls are a flat rate cost it would not only be considered a tax, but a regressive tax, impacting poorer individuals disproportionately more than wealthier individuals.
Spot on. Less break downs. Less accidents
@@Barbershoppod ah?
Fun fact, a land pirate that takes protection money in exchange for sparing someones life is known as a Highwayman.
Huh, I thought A highwayman was a dude on a horse who robs travelers outside of major towns and cities at gunpoint
Please, some of us are highwaypersons.
They decided two of our bridges in my city needed to be toll bridges. And now they get next to no traffic. Because it's a small city and we're all very stubborn
I'd literally rather go four hours out of my way on gravel roads than be forced to use a toll road.
@@MogamiKyoko13 Same. And most of us will sit in traffic, despite technically, city residents having a free pass for five years. Like, I literally know people who live next to one of the bridges who, can use them free for 5 years, still chooses to drive an extra few minutes.
In Colorado we have E470, a tollroad that allows "reliable and convenient" access to Denver airport. They seemed to have designed it to specifically be hard as shit to avoid using it. It added an additional HOUR to the trip to the airport last time I went. Because aint no way I'm paying a toll. Also, fun fact, if you owe back tolls from using E470, your registration will not be allowed to be renewed, even though apparently its run by a private company! Fun stuff!
@@caodesignworks2407based
Good on you all for that. I bet the bridges will last longer as a result of the reduced traffic on them leading to reductions in their maintenance costs which was the goal all along, right?
America really hates investing in any kind of infrastructure, like, at all.
The US has a history of not really liking investments in general. It's odd.
Speaking of which I would really like a video in which Cody discusses the history of America Sports Obsession in High School and college and such, and discusses how this often leads to other education stuff getting underfunded in the name of sports.
And also compare how other countries handle this as well. EG I've heard that in Germany, sports, band, dance, etc. is something you do in your free time and not at school because school is seen as a place of learning. In Mexico, extracurricular activities are not offered until College and as a result a lot of people become doctors and dentists faster and younger.
@@kittykittybangbang9367 People get their medical degrees faster in Mexico because they allow students to enroll straight out of high school instead of it being a graduate degree like it is in the US. It has nothing to do with extracurricular activities, it's just a different way to structure medical school.
Except sports stadiums. We love those.
@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819By that you mean U.S. cities love paying for private sports teams' stadiums with taxpayers' money.
Public private partnerships... ppp's... suck... Nothing ruins the public sector like privatizing it.
Yes, it is truly the worst of both worlds
Hahaha pp
I can not fathom why people assume these PPP"s are cheaper for the public.
@@lostbutfreesoul They've been fed A LOT of propaganda over the years.
@@paniqd
This is something deeper then propaganda, it is... cultural.
Hard to explain when something becomes so ingrained that there isn't even a need for propaganda at that point. That no 'dark and shadowy group' are plotting... for the public does it to itself, and far better at that. Creating systems in which greedy individuals don't need to conspire, society is just designed for them already. I think our descendants, or some alien life, is going to study this time period for a long while and try to understand why and how we did this to ourselves.
Once you are aware of it though, you start to wonder about our culture.
I recently got a past due notice for a toll road I haven't driven on in 20 years for a car I haven't owned in 20 years. They were going to ruin my credit over a misread license plate.
one of the first things i ever voted for upon turning 18 was a tax increase instead of making a new bridge a toll and years later i'm still quite satisfied with that choice
Do you mean to tell me the libertarians were wrong about something?!?! IM SHOCKED!
Truly unthinkable
You mean providing the best possible service or product ISN'T the best way to make as much money as possible? Who knew???
😂😂😂😂
The icing on the cake is when these "fiercely independent" people get bought out by foreign investors
@@hmnhntrMost certianly not the mafia now to get back to painting rotten Olives green.
Man I always assumed toll road tolls actually did go back to the state for infrastructure maintenance costs. I can't say I'm surprised that I was wrong because *gestures vaguely at the US* but that really sucks.
Nah most are run by private companies, even here in Australia it's been a problem for a long time despite the fact we pay Service NSW (government department that includes the former Roads and Traffic Authority) for the e-tag I can't remember any public operated toll roads since before they opened the Sydney Harbour tunnel AFAIK they're all run by Transurban currently which also controls at least 3 tollroads in Virginia and another 1 in Canada.
@@cericat It's always funny and very sad to see how the US but specially AU always are like a less capitalist version of Chile. Let me put it this way, I've traveled through 80% of Chile by road more than once and have never been on a road without tolls, but it gets worse because most if not all of the contracts don't necessarily revert the property to the state after x time along with other fuckeries that make it basically impossible for the state to ever own any roads, they just get passed around every 20 to 25 years between private companies.
And I won't even get into the extremely well documented domestic terrorism those companies fund, it's truly fucking vile.
@@eleSDSU and sadly a lot of that is the fault of the US interfering in other nations politics since before the second world war. I do wonder what Allende could have accomplished without Kissinger's policy advice to Nixon.
@@cericatHere in Spain we have the worst of both worlds: private companies were contracted to build (and exploit in return) highways (which are different from our "regular" auto-ways, which are government-run and toll-free).
When they went too far with the toll prices and too low on the maintenance during the 2011 crisis, people stopped using them (shocking, i know).
So our then right-wing "classic-liberal" government decided to rescue them with public money by re-buying at a humongous (close to a hundred billion euros) loss for the state.
What happened after that? Government repaired the roads and did their due maintenance... And then "sold" them TO THE SAME FUCKING CUNTS for peanuts.
It still infuriates me.
Living off a toll road sucks. Especially when the road wasnt a toll way when I moved. 😢😢
geez
That's sickening. welcome to war on the poor. Who needs extra children when we can just import them, hmmmm maybe them Russian orphange kidnappiers be on to somethin... We're going too all be russia one day because of toll roads, final word - it's finally official..
I was listening to this at work and at 16:02 after Cody asked why the gas tax hasn't been raised to keep up with costs it started buffering and it took me a full 30 seconds to realize that him not saying anything wasn't the joke
"I was listening to this at work" *Offers high-five*
I encountered toll roads for the first time in my life a few months back driving from Missouri to Milkwaukee. I took a pretty direct route and noticed it was almost impossible to avoid toll roads. As someone who doesn't have to regularly interact with them my only question was, "Why do I have to pay 9 dollars for the privilege of driving through Illinois I don't even live here?"
"Privilege" is a generous word to use.
would be solved if more highspeed railway would be built but of course they don't want that
did you notice the higher speeds and the lack of road damage and overall better driving experience?
Arguably, driving through a state that you don't live in has more logic to being tolled than one that you do live in
Be happy it wasn't PA
It's 28 dollars from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh (about half the state)
But it's only 28 dollars with ezpass.
Without ez pass its 48 dollars
I would never tax Cody to traverse my tunnel.
Dangit! I'm always the wrong Cody! Curse you, Nooz Dood!
From which entrance? Front or back?
@@Albtraum_TDDC Yes. Just to be sure.
I often debate with people that we need to invest in infrastructure, and to make it happen we should use the defense budget to do so. After all the military uses these roads, bridges, internet, waterways, public water, electricity, and power plants just as much as us so it should come with the territory.
Sadly I tend to get laughed out of the room because infrastructure isn't sexy enough. uwu
furry spotted, deploying :3
Awoooo
It's part of how Eisenhower got support for expanding the highway system in the USA, infrastructure is vital to moving defense hardware whether at war or not and he knew from first hand experience that it took months to cross the existing road infrastructure from east to west. You do however need rail more than roads for the simple fact that you can more efficiently move high volumes of people and resources by rail than by road.
Well I guess you just found the solution! We need to _make_ infrastructure sexy. Government departments in charge of maintaining/expanding infrastructure can team up with the adult entertainment industry, make some of those porn-parodies and have the actors/actresses do little PSAs in between scenes about the importance of "smoothing and straightening roads" and "laying _good, strong_ pipe." Honestly, the dialogue would write itself a lot of the time.
@@Disgruntled_Grunt Make Infrastructure Sexy Again
Proud of you guys to finally get a Ground News sponsor, I always felt like that thing was just waiting to happen
Yup, and it's actually good, too.
It sounds super cool, looking into signing up now
Right? That made me happy. Didn't surprise me when he mentioned that the showdy had reached out to Grounds News.
Hopefully one day, they'll be featured on there.
I trust absolutely no yt sponsors. Even skillshare and nebula have problems.
One of my favourite things about this channel, having been a regular viewer since always, is how you can tell when Cody is happy with a bit and his delivery, as he'll always grin just slightly afterwards.
Classic Cody, always over estimating the amount of slop I eat and underestimate the amount of butt stuff I do over the holidays.
They don’t call it stuffing for nothin !
Combine the two and save time, you little life hacker you
I know, and he was spot on about the butt stuff with the Wishbone dog, too.
mmm, butt slop
Eating slop and butt stuff is usually one in the same for me. In case I'm being unclear, or anyone doesn't understand what I'm trying to say, I'm saying I eat booty like it's groceries.
Floridian here! It's getting to the point that it seems harder to find a road that isn't a toll road
When I was there I drove off the main routes and avoided tolls by driving through a ton of citrus tree groves. It took more time but the smell was much better than the alternative! ("Last time" means about a decade ago.)
Toll roads in Florida aren't privatized. They're state-owned and indeed the revenues do go to the maintenance of the highways. It's actually a good thing. Florida has one of the highest rates of users paying for the cost of the infrastructure of any state, 88%.
I love when my locality is mentioned in these videos, makes the problems more real. I had to drive 5 times a week, back and forth everyday, through that Portsmouth tunnel for college during the pandemic. One of the great benefits of dropping out of college is no toll.
Take the bus or ferry
I’m so glad the toll trolls let me buy a magic box that automatically siphons my money to them, especially when *their tolls* don’t read *their magic box* and *they* charge *me* 10x the normal toll. I love it!
“ You got to pay the toll troll if you want to get into this boy's hole “
- Danny Devito
My favorite is when a car across the country in a state I've never set foot into looks a little too much like mine and I get sent their ticket!
@@bassman9261995do you mean boy’s soul?😂
@@bassman9261995 are your fingers chewing gum?
@@tacticalflex2154hopefully
HOW TO AVOID TOLLS:
spend the 100 bucks or so to found an llc and put your vehicle in the llc. Don't continue the llc the next year when it's time to pay the renewal fees so it gets dissolved by the state. Now you have a car registered to a dead company, the dead company will still be the target of the toll companies so you will get a lot of mail for the dead company demanding it pays the tolls but since it's a dead company you don't care. You can still do all the renewal stuff on the car like normal every year even though it's in a dead entity. Mine is over 10k in tolls ignored so far. Cost me 125 total to do it. I'll answer any Qs that get posted here if it helps.
Damn 200 iq move
My only question is how you fit behind the wheel, with balls that large
@@Robert96902it's also a great way to keep the police out of your business since when they run your plates it comes back to a company car instead of you the person. Stay anon, don't let them grind you down.
This feels like it really skirts into the realm of fraud, are you certain it’s as legal as you think it is (not that I have anything against illegality, I just don’t like going to prison)
@@puffena9013 if they could prove intent by say... providing a picture of this post in court where I expressly say why the situation exists and that it's to avoid tolls... maybe. But it would be a civil case not a criminal one. The amount owed would have to be over 20k before any company would be inclined to press the issue and since my total is broken up over a dozen or more toll companies across a dozen or so states I will probably never be "worth the squeeze" legally.
You're right it would be weird if Arizona took control of a toll road considering we're one of the few states that don't have them. I honestly had no idea this was such a widespread problem in the US
Man this discussion really took a toll on me.
Ah god, thanks DAD
😐
It's the way he tolld the story.
I am the Texan who commutes 90 minutes one way. The express lane outside my work also changes the toll price during peak times and raises it even higher during high traffic. As much as an 8$ toll.
So let's say you have to pay the toll twice a day and it fluctuates between 5$ and 7.5$, that's an easy 200-300$ per month thrown directly into someones money maw.
For the PRIVILEGE of arriving at the job you have to do to earn the PRIVILEGE of paying for food and medicine and shelter.
@ludo_narr I had a month where traffic was so bad I had to take it every day or be late to work constantly. I got a toll bill for 223$ and almost threw up when it came in
@@jessefoster6653 And since you're not, like, dropping cash in as you go, I bet you get double fucked with fees and what not if that bill doesn't get paid in a timely matter.
Or a warrant! Because Texas isn't the worst state, but it tries harder to be every single day.
damn.
You’re in Texas. Get the F out of Texas!!!
This is the first time an ad on a RUclips video has ever worked on me. Ground News seems legitimately amazing. I signed up for a year of premium. Good job, Cody!
I can't believe how distraught I am...I've been writing to the showdy for years now, well before I even started watching. Toll booths have always been an extreme Fascination to me, and seeing this video in my subfeed was one of the most heart-wrenching moments I've had to endure. Cody, I had assumed you never wrote back because you were busy either researching or fighting the current Hog crisis, but that hurt to watch😢
I have always found it funny how those that are most concerned about the government watching them, ruining their “wholesome” life and corruption, are the people that elect individuals that will assure all their worst fears come true. 😂
also them, have a ring doorbell
But it's their own idiot whos doing it so they are winning.
Even moreso after this past week and the "death panel" of judges deciding healthcare...
I was just saying over the holiday weekend of travel that the Ohio Turnpike was suppose to end tolls after it was paid for,... so about 50 years ago.
GroundNews SOUNDS good, but can you chug an entire glass of it on video so I can be sure it's for me?
Ooh how fitting! I just drove from Connecticut to Washington and back and avoided all but one toll even though Maps kept trying to force me through them. Let's hear it, I'm sure it won't make me mad.
The fam and I drove from southeast Minnesota to Orlando, Florida one year, and the constant micromanagement we had to do on Google maps to avoid toll roads was frankly ridiculous. I think we were successfully able to avoid all but 2 on the way and we couldn't avoid any once we were actually in FL.
@@MogamiKyoko13 It was such a pain! Forcing fake stops and trying to reverse engineer routes, especially while suffering from sleep deprivation, thoroughly ridiculous indeed.
I basically sent a letter, in the mail, on actual paper written with an actual pen, folded in an envelope, and sealed with my saliva, by licking that very clean glues, every day, stating how much I need Codey to do an episode about how amazing toll roads are.
And after this, and only after this, episode, have I changed my mind about toll roads.
Thanks Some More News for making a real difference, as now that MY mind is changed, the right thing will happen.
Cody: "Are you ready for your news slop?!"
Me: "HELL YEAH I AM"
How's about we narrow roads down and reduce parking space in an effort to make USA roads multi-use so even pedestrians can use it in order to make cities more "wow" and functional
Publice Transportation would go a long way in helping. Would also dramatically reduce the need for Parking Lots, so that real estate could be used for affordable housing.
I imagine any politician, state or federal, who even suggested this, would not survive their next election.
@@curmudgeon1933 Because of "MuH 15 minute city ConSpiramacy ThEoRy!" or people took too much car CoPiUm aka too pressured into keeping their "investment" of a car that keeps depreciating in value every year?
Do people really fantasize about running over "pesky pedestrians" as they chow down on the 5th plate of fast food for the day or could they just be allergic to good public transit? Better question, do they really love having their car spy on them every minute of every day while on their commute or simply doing _that thing_ their parents did with only the fear of judgment from people walking in on them and not the judgment of a "woke" car company selling their personal data to get more targeted ads to these drivers/passengers?
Best damn news team on the tube. I’m almost financially viable to support directly, gonna make it a New Year thing!
In Washington State, we have the Narrows Bridges. The second bridge was built by a private company that charges a toll. The cost of building it was covered by tolls in six months. Can't help but wonder why the DOT didn't just do this itself, and put the extra money toward fixing roads.
For the first twenty years or so of my life i didnt travel at all, really. I didn't encounter toll roads until I did a cross country trip by myself a few years back going from Phoenix to New York and it really feels like someone's just holding you up and robbing you. Like, when you aren't expecting it, it's a really jarring experience.
Yeah, that's basically what they're doing. They're highwaymen, except instead of pointing guns at you, they have the police (indirectly) on their payroll.
Thank goodness GPS, or at least Google Maps, has an "avoid tolls" option these days. I would rather go to jail than pay these scumfucks
i have practical magic on dvd, so that reference meant everything to me. the dvd is a remnant of when dvds were good. it has a little game in it where you have to pick up clues in the special features to make a potion that unlocks more special features.
Lol I was literally carrying my phone into the bathroom as Cody was saying to do so. Synchronicity at its best 😂
Ground News is great, with one glaring flaw which Cody has successfully illustrated without directly mentioning. The sources which Ground News classifies as “Center” are actually center-right at best.
Reminds me when we were in the car heading to the airport for Thanksgiving like, a week ago, and my mom was like "Wow, the toll roads are really expensive today, guess they're trying to cash in on the new demand." Then on the way back home, it was like $3 cheaper. Funny how Cody decides to make a vid on this when that happened. Lol.
Love that Jim Jordan made a cameo in this piece about roadway infrastructure.
Fun fact: Last year, one small, rural section of a state route in Jordan’s district was widened and freshly paved. Completely unrelated - his house is located along that stretch of road.
Now now, privatizing the toll road also weakens the state road workers Union
Okay, I can't lie, Signdra Bullock in Impractical Magic delighted me, so, cheers for including the "obscure reference."
this is the only showdy where I watch the entire ad break
I have watched and listened to you for a few years now, keep up the great job on informing people in a pretty fair way.
37:54 you can audibly hear Cody breaking character by his true amazement at the garbage that is that tesla truck
Thank you so much for reading out my letter at the end of this episode. That was the 10th letter I've written you, each one shorter than the one before, and I'm glad that I finally figured out the right number of characters to have it be read aloud by you ❤
The excellent youtube channel Climate Town also recently did a fantastic video specifically about the Chicago parking issue, which to me looks like a clear case of where the law has failed and it's time to... uh, we'll say, "go extralegal"... to fix that problem.
You have to pay the troll toll to get into this boy's soul
FINALLY! Took major scrolling to find this gem.
Another great episode, thanks for all you and the crews hard work.
I really appreciate the time you take to put good information we aren't exposed to or have time to research with humor.
It makes it so much easier for me to take in the bad news.
When I lived in Dallas, so many people loved the toll roads, touting the "use fee" model. rather than "raising taxes" it was idiotic. they really believed that somehow it worked out better.
There are major student loan servicers that own/ or have stakes in toll roads in U.S. and Puerto Rico. They made workers during periods of low volume from the pandemic work on verifying license plates numbers and categorizing them.
Thanks for all the great videos some more news team!
I winced, physically, at the idea of Warmbo doing taxes.
I feel like this is the only channel I enjoy where the brand integration ad breaks are just about as entertaining as the rest of the video :-) Great job you guys long time fan!
I once drove an extreme backroad route from Rochester, NY to Niagra Falls, NY because I didn't realize how prevalent toll roads were in (at least upstate) NY. In So Cal it's pretty easy to avoid toll roads, for the most part, so my navigator was set to route around them. It was a very interesting trip through some more rural areas of Upstate NY.
Upstate NY has only ONE toll road, the New York Thruway.
Ah, then that must have been the most direct way between the two. I was only there visiting for a few weeks, so I don't know the area very well. I just know the "don't take tolls" route was extremely backroads. @@TheDizint
yeah, the 90 sucks especially since it takes twice as long if you don't use it.
Tolls and gas prices are the reasons that I will never EVER visit the state of Illinois ever again. Just driving through cost me over $100 going from TN to MN.
Illinois is the worse. I make a yearly trip from Michigan to Minnesota.
You can very easily avoid the tolls and it's only like 10 minutes more. I live in Illinois
@@robk7266 I partially blame my GPS cause I always try to hit that 'avoid tolls' option and never get any different route. That's the only time I have traveled that direction by car so hopefully next time I can avoid them. That bill was still a shocker though.
My township was scammed by the local governing body that a "toll booth" was needed to pay for a new bridge that was sorely needed to connect the peninsula to the rest of the state.
It would only be "temporary" for the next 7 years and once the bridge was paid for, the toll would be removed.
20 years going strong.
Maintenance isn’t free. Neither is operations
In Denton Texas there is a bridge that costs $3 to cross it’s only about a mile long. People that use it don’t really have a choice unless they want to add 30 minutes to an hour to their commute.
Yup, that's why toll roads aren't allowed in my state. Toll roads are immoral IMO - it's just grift. Taxes pay for our roads. If that's not enough money, then clearly the taxes need to go up. It's as simple as that. Painful as no one likes paying taxes, but still simple.
Tolls as a mechanism to pay for the infrastructure instead of taxes are bad.
But tolls that aim to reduce the number of people driving through an area is good, imo. Driving imposes certain negative externalities on the places that people drive through. Charging drivers a fee in order to reduce demand and help offset those negative externalities is a good thing.
@@birdrocket Exactly which tolls are those? Are you referring to the exorbitant prices that toll companies have been caught charging? Cuz it didn't actually affect the number of drivers.
Even in places like Central London where they charge ppl for driving into the city center, there's no real indication that the toll actually prevents ppl from driving into the city center that weren't already not driving into the city center because of traffic congestion. And those that would be most affected? They're the poorest ppl that need to go into the city (probably for some shitty service job that doesn't pay enough to own a car anyway).
@@birdrocket You can't reduce the number of drivers without creating alternatives, and most of the country doesn't have the infrastructure available to travel without driving.
Something like that might have an effect somewhere like NYC that has actual transit options, but most drivers don't have the option to not drive.
@@Will-fl3hj you can reduce the number of drivers though, driving is not a completely inelastic demand. You see this every time gas prices spike: total vehicle miles traveled decreases. Even if driving is the only option (which it rarely is), people will drive less when it costs more, either by taking other routes, consolidating trips, or car pooling.
@@SadisticSenpai61 I’m not talking about private tolls. Tolls can be operated by municipalities, too, you know. The congestion charge in London actually has delivered results. Traffic entering the zone is down 18%, congestion is down 30%, bus travel has increased by 33%, and 10% of journeys have switched from driving to walking, cycling, or public transportation.
I know it seems like poor people are worse affected by charges like this, but the reality is that poorer people already are less likely to own a car or drive than richer people, especially in a city like London. People were not driving into central London for shitty service jobs even before the congestion charges, it would make zero financial sense to do so.
As a Chicagoan I can say I appreciate you acknowledging the parking deal that was imo done to stuff the pockets of a corrupt outgoing mayor, I can say I appreciate it but watching that segment just hurt. Ouch.
Pretty sure watching the first half of this video weeks ago is what made the algorithm start feeding me Not Just Bikes.
I don't have an ez pass and accidentally took a toll. It was all EZ pass so I couldn't pay. So I did an immediate U turn because my exit was the one before the toll. Didn't think they would charge me because I didn't go through another toll gate.
I've never gotten a bill in the mail. So I thought nothing of it. Til 6 months later that 6 dollar bill became 200 bucks due to late fees and went to collections!
It was a nightmare getting that fixed. Tolls are so predatory with their late fees!
Love Cody defending Lost! Way to go! :)
If Warmbo does your taxes, does that mean you get your refund in corn cream?
I really like the collar detail stitching on your sweater, Katy!
I took a wrong turn once (when trying to avoid a toll road) and went on the toll road for about one mile. I was trying to avoid the toll road because I hadn’t brought any cash and I didn’t have one of those automatic payment devices set up. So I drove through the un-manned toll booth area. I later got a citation for $25 in the mail for not paying the toll. Toll roads really stink.
Been telling my fam this for a year. We stopped to pay and still got a bill for the tolls
Toll Roads are a lot like ads. You didn't show up for them, you didn't ask for them, but Cody's still gonna stop everything (like tolls!) to milk a few cents out.
I was going to leave a comment about how a solid 5 minute block of ads was a lot but this was better so I'll just latch on my thoughts here. I scrubbed the timeline to skip them so no big deal to me but if they did shorter, ~30-45 second ad reads I'd probably actually sit through them.
The robin hood men in tights reference was great.
Can confirm walking in Florida is bs. Not only is the weather miserable 80% of the time, but I'm a *fast* walker and when our car broke down it took me 21 minutes to walk to the grocery store. The year gas went up to about $5 a gallon (2007 or 8ish) the buses started running only every hour and a half, and they never changed it back. It used to be 50cents for the bus, now it's 1.50
I was stationed down in Norfolk on the USS Eisenhower when that toll between Norfolk and Portsmouth got implemented. My first thought was that they did it to discourage travel from Norfolk (wealthier) and Portsmouth (very, very impoverished area).
I was looking at a map and there are lots of ferry routes. There are also busses that use the toll tunnel. I think there are ways to avoid the tolls, but people would rather pay a toll than share a space with strangers
That may be the case now, but the buses weren't going through the tunnel in 2016, at least to my knowledge. We had to rely on taxis to get to and from NNSY to go downtown Norfolk
@@squidbillyradio seriously? That recently? That's ridiculous. I know America is bad with transit systems, but if they already had a bus system, why not put about on a preexisting road?
@@robk7266 yeah, I was stationed down there from December 2013 to April 2016. I used the buses to get around Norfolk, but there was nothing crossing the river. And to top it off, in order to bypass the tolls, you have to drive at least 4 miles out of the way to avoid the tolls
The government has really called things more difficult for its citizens, and we can't sit back and bear all the consequences of the bad governance. It's obvious we are headed for hyperinflation,it is always the poor who take the hit.
The wisest thought that is in everyone's minds today is to invest in different income flows that do not depend on the government, especially with the current economic crisis around the world. This is still a good time to invest in gold, silver and digital currencies (BTC, ETH.... stock,silver and gold)
That's right because It's no longer a story that the world is experiencing a global economic downturn, I'm so happy that I've been receiving $64,000 from my $15,000 investment.
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After I got upto 900k trading with Tara Elizabeth, I bought a new House and I'm now able to send my kids to a better school in the states When someone is straight forward with what he or she is doing people will always speak up for them.
the practical magic reference is one of the very very few references i understood from this god forsaken show. i love being the most special unique person here
Well done, praises & applause & I'm mad about toll roads now, thanks.
I miss Warmbo!
#freeWarmbo
And I am 100% positive that the toll road companies give google maps a kickback. They constantly funnel you onto toll roads and even if you set up preferences to avoid tolls - every update it resets and you aren’t even aware.
Thank you for all the wonderful ads mr news man!
I drove the PA Turnpike a couple months ago and the tolls cost more than the gas. I paid about $180 in gas while the total in tolls were about $200. I got a discount for converting it to EZ Pass but that only brought it down to be about the same as gas instead of more.
Edit: I forgot to mention that about two tanks worth of the gas was spent driving around Philly for three days on non toll roads and in MI where the roads aren't tolled. So the amount I paid in tolls was significantly more than the amount of gas I spent on the toll roads themselves.
So I've been telling myself it's so dumb to be paying $1.25 to get to work 10 minutes faster...i have a feeling this video is going to be the motivation I've been need to leave the house 10 minutes earlier and start taking the "scenic" route
You bet they'll cut the free road up and hike the price to 10 dollars
Do that, and save that money. Actually save it and see what it amounts to by the end of next year. You could get yourself or someone else a nice holiday present in a years' time.
I would rather drive through the uncharted wilderness than pay a toll
Try that driving 2500 miles. Enjoy your 15 minute city
The Florida toll roads are horrible down here. I've been double and triple charged for using a toll road that's the only route to and from my doctor that doesn't take two hours of poorly-maintained one-lane travel along country backroads. Buying a SunPass is supposed to *stop this.*
I can't believe you made a 40 minute video about Toll Roads interesting. I even watched your damn ads all the way through... it felt like I was paying a toll.... the meta was exquisite
Kind of wish we had a Chinese-style system where states can take they're roads back, and if corporations don't like it, the government makes the CEO and Board disappear for a month
You gotta pay the troll toll to get in
Are you chewing gum?
...to the boy's hole
@@slothmanification SONG OR NO SONG!
Can you talk about how insurance companies seem to be able to make decisions to not cover areas they think have too many claims or are high risk? It's not just happening in Florida to my knowledge.
4:35 I remember when Cody was the original Lost explained. He had a whole website going over every mystery brought up in the show and how it was answered. Was a fun read if you liked the show, but not the ending. Made me appreciate the show in a new light.
But I love when 3 lane highways are 2/3rds empty due to tolls!!!
And other roads are cramped with traffic, because people can’t afford the toll, but still have to drive to work!
It’s almost like such systems divide the population into two - those who can afford tolls and those who can’t!
Car pirates = Truckaneers
Mate as an Aussie I'll tell ya this where I am they tried to put a toll road in and I think it made about 50$ cos everyone just drove off-road to get around it
Finally! Well done on the Ground News sponsorship. Was waiting for that to happen. 👍
Usa is so wild to me. As a Canadian, the idea to pay to use infrastructure is incomprehensible. Ontario has a few, and people hate it.
What's next, paying to use a side walk? Pay to call police? Fire? Pay to cross the border of your own country? Pay to vote???
it makes sense if they wanted to discourage using cars but they/we don't have the proper railway infrastructure like in Europe or other civilized countries
huh? toll roads are very common in europe. the better/more well run the country the more toll roads you see.
WHAT dont you get about collecting money and using it to improve infrastructure?
@@toadwine7654 cool but the US has privately owned toll roads that don't contribute anything to state funds to manage infrastructure
"Wow, I can't imagine a country doing this, mine only does it sometimes."
Just saying, that was kind of weird. It sounds like you have a lot of "US problems" there, but I wouldn't personally know.
@@mars7304 again americans fail to see the fundamental issue.
If you have private toll companies who only take money from drivers and dont build roads.
You have legalized roadside banditry. And that is not a issue related to toll roads in any way really.
You keep covering boars. What about Geese? They're everywhere!
Geese are wretched sky boars
That commuting stuff is crazy. Housing is another externality offloaded by the corporate cleptocracy. Makes the old company town look very progressive.
Can we get some merch that says "I love my news slop" ?
There should be a toll for idiocy in this country. The national debt would be history in a week.
Tolls (or more specifically congestion pricing) can be useful for managing traffic on key roads for the benefit of essential vehicles, public transportation, and commercial transport (ie trucks), who either would have toll exemptions or benefit from spending less time in traffic and more time actually moving to a destination.
Obviously most personal vehicle drivers would oppose this, but if it means that more people would be inclined to use transit it wouldn't be particularly inconvenient.
I live in a 15 minute city, I walk for 15 minutes and I get where I wanted, haven't even seen a toll in years
Arizona should own the New Jersey Turnpike... Good idea Cody