On 5/11/2017 5:59 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

>
> Don't let them do it. We had a stretch of highway that was being built
> as a bypass for Toronto. It was supposed to take some of the traffic off
> the QEW between Hamilton and Toronto. Then the province decided to
> make it an electronic toll road and privatized it. It is outrageously
> expense. It is bad enough that they charge by the kilometer, but there
> is also an access fee. For me to get on at Hamilton and take it to
> Toronto to head north from there costs more than $20, and it is only
> about 30 miles.
>

Roads should never be privatized. The past two weeks I've been driving
on a few thousand miles of interstates and we have a really good tax
paid highway system. The toll roads we have are reasonably priced too.
Every one of the 12 states I was in is doing work to improve them also.

Eisenhower did good. In 1919 he took a caravan of army trucks across
country to see if it could be done Barely was but he saw the need for a
good system.