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Re: California Senate Bill 350
Author: Craig Tambo
Date: 08-31-2015 - 17:35
Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> >There was an edict at one point (not sure how
> high up the approval was) requiring freeway right
> of way that was being held for future projects be
> disposed of
>
> Sounds more like and anti-Moonbeam urban legend
> that reality.
>
> >then when the toll road people got going they had
> to buy out and demolish the condos to build the
> road.
>
> What "toll road"? With a true "toll road" you
> can't use it at all without paying the toll(s),
> like the Maine Turnpike. Those Fastrak lanes added
> onto existing freeways are hardly "toll roads",
> even though the website calls them that, because
> you can still use the freeway without paying the
> toll, just stay out of the fastrak lane. Over the
> last several decades there have been several
> proposals to build toll roads here in Calif, but
> it's never happened.
Sorry, Doctor, but there are toll roads in southern California, as far as I know all in Orange County. These include State Routes 73, 133, 241, and 261. I drive them periodically when visiting my wife's relatives, and found that my NorCal Fastrak works on them as well.
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> >There was an edict at one point (not sure how
> high up the approval was) requiring freeway right
> of way that was being held for future projects be
> disposed of
>
> Sounds more like and anti-Moonbeam urban legend
> that reality.
>
> >then when the toll road people got going they had
> to buy out and demolish the condos to build the
> road.
>
> What "toll road"? With a true "toll road" you
> can't use it at all without paying the toll(s),
> like the Maine Turnpike. Those Fastrak lanes added
> onto existing freeways are hardly "toll roads",
> even though the website calls them that, because
> you can still use the freeway without paying the
> toll, just stay out of the fastrak lane. Over the
> last several decades there have been several
> proposals to build toll roads here in Calif, but
> it's never happened.
Sorry, Doctor, but there are toll roads in southern California, as far as I know all in Orange County. These include State Routes 73, 133, 241, and 261. I drive them periodically when visiting my wife's relatives, and found that my NorCal Fastrak works on them as well.
